Social congition and socil thinking
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- Created on: 12-01-16 15:17
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- Social cognition and Social thinking
- Definition
- The study of the cognitive processes and structures that influence and are influenced by social behaviour
- Automatic Thinking - low effort thinking
- A process that occurs without intention, effort or awareness
- Can make mistakes
- Shooter bias - Correll et al.
- Ppts were more likely to shoot the black person that wasn't holding the gun rather than the white person
- A process that occurs without intention, effort or awareness
- Forming impressions of other people
- Asch - Configural model
- Central traits are more influential than peripheral trairs
- Central traits - influence the meanings of other traits
- Peripheral traits - in the impresson formation process
- People exposed to 'warm' generated a more favourable impression
- Warm = central trait
- Polite = peripheral trait
- Central traits are more influential than peripheral trairs
- Kelley - Naturalistic setting
- Repeated Asch's experiment in an naturalistic setting
- Those in the 'cold' condition rated the lecturer as un socioable
- Central traits are responsible for the holistic configuration of the impression
- Repeated Asch's experiment in an naturalistic setting
- Asch - Configural model
- Primacy and recency effects
- Traits that appear first have more impact upon our impressions - primacy effect
- More attention paid earlier
- If in a good mood = more likely to say good things
- Negative/extreme information is weighted more heavily
- We assume that physically attractive people are good and outgoing
- We normally go for stereotype consistent impressions
- Once a negative impression is formed it is more difficult to change
- We are sensitive to negative information because it is unusual and distinctive which attracts our attention
- Indirectly signifies potential danger - survival value
- We are sensitive to negative information because it is unusual and distinctive which attracts our attention
- We assume that physically attractive people are good and outgoing
- Recency
- Later presented information has an influence on social cognitions
- Traits that appear first have more impact upon our impressions - primacy effect
- Schema
- A cognitive structure that represents knowledge about a concept or type of stimulus
- Set of attitudes and beleifs that Allow us to quickly make sense of a person or situation based on limited information
- Person Schema
- Individualised knowledge structure about specific people
- Role schema
- Knowledge structures about role occupants
- Doctors are strangers that are allowed to ask personal questions and get you to undress
- Event schema
- Called a script
- Lack of relevant scripts can lead to feeling of disorientationand frustration
- Place schema
- Content free schema
- Does not contain rich information about a specific category but rather a limited number of rules of processing information
- Self-schema
- Content free schema
- Called a script
- Knowledge structures about role occupants
- Untitled
- A cognitive structure that represents knowledge about a concept or type of stimulus
- Heuristics
- People use heuristics to reduce complex problem solving to simple judgemental operations
- Definition
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