PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Eyewitness Identification, Cognitive Miser, Hindsight Bias
Document Summary
Categorization: the process of recognizing and identifying something. Social cognition: the study of how information about people is processed and stored. Schemas: mental representations of objects or categories, which contain the central features of the object or category as well as assumptions about how the object or category works. Relation schemas: people also have schemas for specific interpersonal interactions, such as how doctors and patients are supposed to interact. Child"s early learning involves the formation of schemas. An important goal of the educational system is to expand students" knowledge of schemas, including some very specialized schemas. Categorization: basic function of schemas is to categorize objects in ways that impose meaning and predictability. This process occurs automatically and effortlessly with the majority of things we encounter everyday. When we categorize something, we assume that it possesses the characteristics of the schema even if we cannot perceive those characteristics directly.
