PSC 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Attribution Bias, Social Cognition, Appraisal Theory
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We are motivated to see ourselves & our future positively & believe that we have control over our outcomes. These motivations affect how we attend to, encode, & process info. Dunning argues that motivation (specifically self - serving biases) can inluence some of the most basic features of social cognition - our representations of concepts. Schema - cognitive structure that represents knowledge about a concept or type of stimulus, including its attributes & the relations among those attributes . We have representation of what a good student is. According to dunning, we tend to define categories in self - serving ways. A good daughter is whatever we are. Dependable, dutiful obedient vs. thoughtful, loving, caring. We will define categories based off whatever traits we have. Think, well i am x, y, & z so use those characteristics to define. It"s easy to be biased in how we define categoreies. Ex: we all can consider ourselves as good students.
