PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intelligence Quotient, Amos Tversky, Representativeness Heuristic
9 May 2016
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Social situations are ambiguous, but humans tend to judge. Today we study how we make those judgements and how those judgments effect behaviour. Social judgment is the process by which people come to understand on another. Social judgement is the reaction to social stimuli and events. Often judgment is important, ex which sexual partner, which grad student to take on ect. And these choices are super important, so it is important to understand these biases. The dual processing theory implies that controlled processing can override automatic processing. This means that information about stereotypes (automatic) can be changed by thinking about it, but that takes more effort than just accepting it at face value. A type of automatic process in which exposure to one stimuli associated with another stimuli. For example, paper and pen are easily primed. The mind is very good at filling in the blanks according to context and the things around it.
