PSYC 2P30 Lecture Notes - Fallacy, Tiger Woods, Lana Turner
5 Apr 2013
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Assignment one reading articles on sakai (resources folder) Processes by which information about people is processed and stored: topics: schematic processing, reconstructive memory, reasoning, problem-solving, counterfactual thinking, stereotyping, etc. Mental representations of objects or categories of objects: schemas aid in the: Influence our interpretation of events: social theory of how the world works. Affects what information we notice, think about and remember. Sometimes the schemas we have misrepresent the world. Why we have them: they fulfill certain functions. Cohen (1961) schema-memory recall: participants watched video of woman performing behaviours (e. g. , dinner with husband, iv: told she was a waitress or of a librarian, results: People basically remember the information that was consistent with the schema (whether she was a waitress or a librarian) E. g. , if presented as a librarian, greater recall on glasses, classical music fan. E. g. , if presented as a waitress, greater recall on beer drinker. Abelson, 1977: information about events, but also the order of events, if-then clauses.
