Psychology 2720A/B Lecture Notes - Fallacy, Availability Heuristic, Illusory Correlation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Amanda De Vaul- Fetters

Document Summary

Psych: categorization: process of recognizing and identifying something --> the most basic process we, social cognition: study of how info about people is processed and stored use to understand and structure our world. If someone compliments your hair, you may find yourself looking at everyone else"s hair: priming: recently used schema is more accessible, ex. Cultural differences in accessible schemas: western cultures emphasize in their socialization individuality, freedom, and independence whereas eastern cultures focus on harmony, obedience, and interdependence --> western and. Eastern individuals differ in the schemas that are most chronically accessible to them: people from different cultures may interpret the same event in different ways. The representativeness heuristic: representativeness heuristic: the tendency to judge the likelihood that a target belongs to a category based on how similar the target is to the typical features of the category, ex.