Psychology 2720A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Counterfactual Conditional, Fallacy, Cognitive Miser

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Leslie Janes

Document Summary

Social cognition the processes by which information about people is processed and stored. Schemas: mental representations of objects or categories of objects aid in categorization of events aid in the predictability of events influence our interpretation of events. *heuristics and biases in everyday judgements - subtitle: mental shortcuts that speed information processing cognitive miser- try to reserve our mental resources for things that are needed if we dont need to think we won"t. +the availability heuristic tendency to base a judgement on how quickly or easily examples come to mind plane crash - going to drive instead because plane crashes - car crashed happen more often though. What is more likely to kill the average america diabetes or murder ? more likely to think murder because it"s more dramatic and publicized. Media influences far more likely to die of asthma than tornadoes - would think tornadoes more likely.