PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Joel Rifkin, Social Cognition, Representativeness Heuristic
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Chapter 04 - social cognition: thinking about people and. As the story made it clear, social judgments can have serious consequences > the story of. This chapter talks about social cognition and the sources of error in judgment about the social world (in 5 parts). Social cognition -> the way people think about the social world and how they arrive at. Cognition is something that has interested social psychologists very much! Social stimuli rarely influence people"s behaviour directly; they do so indirectly through the way they are intrepreted and construed. Our mistakes about our judgements, all of them help us figure out how to do better next time! The mistakes are actually informative to psychologists as they give them helpful clues and hints about how people think and interpret the world around them. This strategy of scrutinizing mistakes has a long history in psychology.
