SOSC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cold War, Cognitive Dissonance, Mirror Image
8 Jan 2018
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Mental maps: how we perceive the world, affect by what we"ve been through eg. our schooling, travels, upbringing. Schematic reasoning: the process of reasoning by which new information is interpreted according to a memory structure, a schema, which contains a network of generic scripts, metaphors, and simplified characterizations of observed objects and phenomena. Cognitive dissonance: if we already have an idea about something, we don"t want to hear anything opposing that idea. Mirror image phenomenon: during the cold war era, where the soviets and us hated each other, while both camps thought of themselves as the righteous side. When there are two competing camps, the languages used on each side are often very similar. Enduring rivalries: long long rivalries that people don"t know how to deal with anymore. Different action taken by different politicians had no effect.
