PSYC 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Confirmation Bias, Social Cognition, Representativeness Heuristic
30 Oct 2017
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Social cognition- how we perceive, remember ourselves and others. Allows us to understand how we construct reality. Perception is influenced by expectations, needs, and wishes of a person. Must have motivation and ability to engage in controlled processing. Schemas- mental frameworks that bundle knowledge of our social world together in an organized way. Affect the information the information we attend to, how intercept it, judgements we make, and what we later remember. Can lead to confirmation bias and self-fulfilling prophecies. Tendency to interpret and even seek out information in ways that confirm our existing beliefs. Our expectations influence how we behave around them. They react to our behavior in a confirmatory way. Confirmation bias is the way you seek information that verifies my expectation and involves one person. Self-fulfilling prophecy is when your expectation of your behavior affects how the other person behaves around you and involves two people. We use whichever schema is at the forefront of our minds.
