SOP 3004 Chapter 3: Lecture & Textbook
4 Oct 2015
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Social cognition: the process through which people think about and make sense of themselves and others! Once we pay attention to something, we still need to determine what that information means we need to interpret it : social behaviors can be interpreted in multiple ways! Judgment: we need to form impressions if we are to make important decisions: social impressions and decisions tend to be more dif cult , many of our impressions and decisions are best guesses ! Goals of social cognition : social thought needs to be exible! Quick quiz 3. 1: judgement: the process of using information to form impressions and make. Motivated tacticians : people"s exibility adopt different styles of thought to achieve different goals ! Expectations: our beliefs about the world; they tell us what we may expect from the people and situations around us! To maintain the bene ts of our expectations, we often think in ways that tend to preserve them !
