PSYC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cognitive Miser, Confirmation Bias, Social Identity Theory

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 203
• Professor: Rose Joudi Kadri

Document Summary

Cite the five sources of information people use to form impressions of others. Explain the key differences between snap judgements and systematic judgements. Define attributions and describe two attribution-based expectations that can distort perceptions. Recognize four important cognitive distortions and how they operate. Identify some ways in which perceptions of others are efficient selective and consistent. Social cognition is the way in which we view and think about the world in a mental perspective. A link to cognition is derived from thinking. We use these methods to help develop our skills, and form decisions quicker. A (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e (cid:373)ise(cid:396) is people (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g sti(cid:374)g(cid:455) (cid:449)ith thei(cid:396) thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g, i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g ph(cid:396)ases su(cid:272)h as (cid:862)i do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449),(cid:863) (cid:862)(cid:449)hate(cid:448)e(cid:396). (cid:863) including making generalizations about specific groups based on past e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)es, (cid:894)ge(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:374)s/nazi"s(cid:895), this is ho(cid:449) ste(cid:396)eot(cid:455)pes, a(cid:374)d (cid:396)a(cid:272)is(cid:373) fo(cid:396)(cid:373)s. The stroop test was created to test how much people pay attention to what is going on, and what they are doing.