PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Cognitive Dissonance, Fundamental Attribution Error, Egocentric Bias
21 Nov 2016
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Social psychology : the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another; studies individuals, how society looks in your head. Social cognition : the thinking processes we use when thinking about others. Lots of social cognition processes work very well (usually) but can often have biases . Underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the impact of. How we explain someone"s behavior affects how we react to it personality. You can override first impressions with system two cognitions you should. Top-down processing (schemata override memory) do this. Racist schemata overrode their actual memory class example. Tendency to believe that others act and believe as we do. Tendency to overestimate the likelihood of easily remembered events. Feeling (positive or negative) that predisposes one to respond in a particular. Predispose - you will likely act in one way or the other but it isn"t guaranteed.
