Social Psychology Definitions

Schemas - Mental structures used to organise knowledge
Framing Effects - The framing of risk
Asch’s Configurational Model - we form impressions based on key features we see in humans - Response to cognitive algebra - primay are more important then secondary events
Cognitive Algebra - Impressions of people by assigning positive and negative values to traits - suggest that holistic impression of a person is more important
Exemplars - Individual examples of members of a category - varied
Prototypes - an average of individual exemplars that form a general category
Conjunction fallacy - links to basic probability - people ignore the misconception of chance - the Linda Problem - Tversky and Kahneman
Self-schemas: Information…

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