PSYC 2100 Lecture Notes - Canadian Psychological Association, Condom, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
14 Oct 2012
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Social cognition-how we think about ourselves and our social world (select, interpret, remember) Theories in modern social psychology focus on how we think about the social situation so they can understand why the social environment has a focus on us. Most theories which have had a large impact have a strong cognitive focus, people before didn"t want to do anything with the black box" (our mind). Behaviorists focused on how the environment brought a change to our behaviour. The influence of cognition and processing models on the study of human behaviour is still used quite frequently. Social psychologists want to learn about subjective experience (how people make sense of events), not just interested in behaviour but also how we think and feel. Schemas-mental structures that people use to organize their knowledge about the world. We also have them for ourselves and people. (self-what we like/dislike/who we are.
