SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture 6: Chapter 6 TEXTBOOK Notes

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Karen Mc Garry

Document Summary

To categorize, we place a person into a prototype category. Schemas usually include information about entity"s attributes about its relations with other entities. Give us a way to organize into types. They influence our capacity to recall information by making certain facts more salient and easier to remember. Guide our inferences and judgements about people and objects. Reduce ambiguity by providing way to interpret ambiguous elements in the situation. Schemas affect inference we make about a person. Schemas influence our judgement or feelings about persons and other identities. People are overly accepting of information that fits with a schema. When faced with missing information, people fill in the gaps by adding elements consistent with their schema. People are often reluctant to discard or revise their schemas. Influence both our emotional reactions to success and failure and our future expectations and aspirations. Loss of causality- dispositional (internal) vs situational (external) attributions.