PSYC390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Implicit Cognition, Mental Model, Social Cognition
12 Mar 2018
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The way in which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about our social world. It is also the process by which we make sense of ourselves, the social environment or culture we live, and the people around us. Involves deliberate judgements or decisions of which we are consciously aware: operates slowly. Involves judgment or decisions that are under the control of automatically activated evaluations occurring without our awareness: operates quickly. Includes how one processes and identifies faces and categorical information such as gender and ethnicity, mimics others on a basic level, a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)terprets others" (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)te(cid:374)tio(cid:374)s. An i(cid:374)(cid:374)ate dri(cid:448)e to e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d others" a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iors as (cid:449)ell as our o(cid:449)(cid:374) Process of classifying people into groups based on similar characteristics, whether it be nationality, age, occupation, diagnosis, or some other trait. We do this by defining features and utilizing prototype. It is our mental model that stands for or symbolizes the category.
