PSC 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Environment, Social Exclusion
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Encoding - how the mind takes in info from the environment. Attention - what info gets noticed & receives additional cognitive processing. Interpretation - the meaning imparted to the info. Social environment contains more info than we can process. We must select which info to attend to & which to ignore. Which info we attend to depends on. Stimuli that require immediate behavioral response/have implications for survival. Stimuli that appear suddenly/ moving toward self. Not when threat signal is weakened (ex: averted gaze, smiling) Solos (ex: the one man in group of woman) Deviation from the norm in that situation (ex: professor weating a swimsuit to class vs. at beach) Irrelevant - took the elevator to the tenth floor . Inconsistent - made the same mistake 3 times . Consistent & inconsistent w/ schema > irrelevant. Explanation required for schema - inconsistent behaviors - attention. Schemas & attention directed to explaining it.
