Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Polygraph, Eyewitness Identification, University Of Western Ontario

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: James M Olson

Document Summary

Study of how information about people is processed and stored, including: Using schemas and stereotypes to make judgements about other people. Memory for our own experiences and behaviours (autobiographical memory) Thinking about how events could have been different (counterfactual thinking) When an ambiguous object is encountered, we try to classify it. Ambiguity is unpleasant because we want to understand the world. We assume that objects possess the key properties of their category (schema) We are likely to notice information that is consistent with the schema (expectancies) We are likely to interpret ambiguous information in terms of the schema. A suitor = expected to be friendly, notice you, looks at you. Set of characteristics that a perceiver associates with members of a group: car salesman: friendly but untrustworthy. We expect actions to be consistent with the stereotype. We notice actions that are consistent with the stereotype.