PSYC 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Peer Pressure, Positive Illusions, Mirror Test
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Cognitive knowledge structures; guide attention and memory. Allow us to attend to certain things in the environment, or ignore things. More likely to remember things that fit our schema. Stereotypes develop from schema, develops from our preconceived notions. Affects ways in which we evaluate life experiences. Provides framework for encoding and integrating new or ambiguous information. Tendency for our mind to judge/organize things quickly. Not identify everything in the environment as brand new, makes us become more efficient. Can think about it as a lens/filter in which we see the world. If we have a schema for something, ,we have particular expectations of that thing based on our schema. E. g. optimism schema tells us how to interpret the half full/half empty glass. Leads us to interpret, seek and create information that verifies our pre-existing beliefs/schemas. Confirmation bias (seek information that confirms your pre-existing views) We even have schemas for our own self.
