SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Symbolic Interactionism, Human Nature
23 Oct 2018
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The mental activities (cognitive processes) of the individual are important determinants of social behaviour these cognitive processes include perception, memory, judgment, problem solving, and decision making. An individuals cognitive processes intervene between external stimuli and behaviour responses. Maintains that individuals strive to hold ideas that are consistent with one another, rather than ideas that are inconsistent or incongruous if a person holds several ideas that are incongruous or inconsistent, then he/she will experience internal conflict. Cognitive structure refers to any type of organization among cognitions (concepts and beliefs) social psychologists propose that individuals use one kind of cognitive structure called schemas to explain complex information about other people, groups and situations. Predictions about the lawyer (well dressed, wealthy) practical and functional for understanding our world around us avoids information overload. Cognitive theory over simplifies the way people process information, an inherently complex phenomenon cognitive phenomena are not directly observable; they must be inferred from what people say and do.
