PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Cognition, Availability Heuristic, Counterfactual Thinking

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Amy Muise

Document Summary

Lecture 3 social cognition and social attribution. Human mind has limited capacity to process social cognition. People are (cid:858)(cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e (cid:373)isers(cid:859); (cid:449)e take short(cid:272)uts to understand world. Mental structure that helps people organize knowledge about a stimulus. Makes world more predictable so we know what to expect. 4 things schemas do: guide our attention (what to pay attention to and what to filter out) Overall, schemas help us make sense of world but can lead to important biases. Counterfactual thinking- what can you recall and how you react to it. Bronze medalists tends to feel more joy than silver medallists (because silver medalists not as happy because they were close to winning but bronze is happier to closer to not placing. Missing plane by 2 hours; not mad because you know it was your fault and (cid:449)ould(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)ade it a(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:449)a(cid:455)s (cid:271)ut late (cid:271)(cid:455) fe(cid:449) se(cid:272)o(cid:374)ds = (cid:373)ore (cid:373)ad (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause you were so close.