Psychology 2720A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Abnormal Psychology, Information Processing, Counterfactual Conditional
6 Feb 2017
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Social cognition: the way people think about themselves and the social world. How they select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgements and decisions. Automatic thinking: thought that is generally nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless. Schema: cognitive structure that contains our knowledge about a person, object. Contain information about the key features of the object or category, as well as simple rues about how the object or category operates. i. e. dogs = bark, sociable, loyal, bite when angry, wag their tails when happy. Basic function: categorize objects in ways that provide meaning and predictability. Provide expectancies about what will happen or what an object will be like. Fictional conversation between two men described as businessmen. Some learned that one was the boss and another was the employ. Others learned that they were equal in status. Two other groups didn"t learn either condition until after the story.
