PS200 Lecture Notes - Counterfactual Thinking, Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala
10 May 2013
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Social cognition = how we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about our social world. Screen memory = memory of a memory; a memory where you see yourself in the past (third person) Wexler memory scale = reading something specifically to someone and have them remember it. (def) bits of knowledge (ex: how to do something) Includes how we behave in social groups (based on our personal histories) We become uncomfortable when our schema do not work (as in prejudice) Process of forming schemas: attention what we notice, encoding what we store in memory, retrieval what we recover from memory. Brain areas involved (amygdala and pre-frontal cortex) Self-fulfilling prophecy /rosenthal effect living up to certain expectations, usually negative. Role of mood mood colors perception. Glow effect the positive feeling received when engaging in an enjoyable activity. Depression (depressed people are actually more accurate at discerning truth) Upward = compare actual results with better results (mood worsens)
