PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Neuroscience, Limbic System, Prefrontal Cortex
25 Jan 2018
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Social cognition: the manner in which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world. Just as we are fooled by visual illusions, we are fooled by cognitive illusions. Science helps us sort what is true from what seems to be true. In an effort to process very large quantities of social information quickly, we have developed cognitive shortcuts that work much of the time, but leave us open to predictable errors in judgment. Potential sources of error (fallacies and biases) Mental frameworks centering around a specific theme that help us to organize social information. Priming, unpriming, perseverance effect, reasoning by metaphor. Schemas can help us organize and process. Rosenthal & jacobson, 1968 false iq info for elementary students in san francisco. Told a teacher that some (randomly selected) kids in her class are going to do really well and some would do badly. So the teacher paid more attention to the ones she thought would do.
