PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stroop Effect, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cortisol
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Social psychology the scieniic study of how people think and feel about, inluence, and relate to one another. Cogniive psychology the scieniic study of basic mental abiliies such as percepion, learning, and memory. Schemas - schemas are mental structure"s that represent knowledge about a concept or type of simuli, they oten include atributes and the relaionship around those atributes. Role schemas: expectaions about people in paricular roles and social categories (e. g. the role of social psychologist, student, doctor, portuguese men) Self schemas: expectaions about the self that organize and guide the processing of self relevant informaion. What we associate with a certain type of person (e. g. introvert, warm person) Event schemas: expectaions about sequences of events in social situaions. What we associate with certain situaions (e. g. restaurant schemas) They reduce the amount of informaion to process. They guide our: atenion and encoding, what we noice, how we interpret what we noice.
