PSY220H5 Lecture : schemas and heuristics.docx
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Schemas, a mental picture of the way things should be, they can be biased, self-fulfilling, influence cognitive processes and behaviour. An experiment conducted on classrooms randomly assigned people who are gifted and they received preferential treatment from teachers. Our processing of our world is both automatic and controlled, we posses the ablity to think effortfully and deliberately about our social world. We as social beings constantly try to make sense of other peoples behaviour by making attributions, seeking the cause for something. People who are pessimistic use internal, stable and global causes for negative events, external unstable and specific for positive events. People who are optimistic use external unstable specific for negative events, internal stable and global for positive events. Is the behaviour inconsistent with your social role. 3 factors taken across stiations to determine behaviour. Consensus(do other people respond in the same way ) Distinctiveness(does the person act this way only in this situation)
