PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Shape-Memory Alloy, Intelligence Quotient, Interrupt

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 260
• Professor: Lara Aknin

Document Summary

Study of correlation regarding generosity and selfishness. Social cognition: how people select, interpret, and use information to make decisions and judgments about their social world. Thinking that happens quickly and efficiently and is: non-conscious, unintentional, effortless. Similar to autocorrect : fast, based on past experience, often useful, correct and efficient, sometimes fails awkward and incorrect (judgements, decisions etc. ) Schemas: mental structures people use to organize information from the social world around them: helpful guide. Laundry schema, how to act in a restaurant etc: can shape what we see: When situation is ambiguous, we may fill in-the-blanks with information that seems to fit. Guest lecturer (cold/warm professor: expected warm higher ratings, expected cold poorer ratings, students experienced same lesson. Schema shaped their perspective and what they saw. 30 rock: alec baldwin"s character hears daughters" first word, We hold schemas for: different groups, people and for ourselves. Stereotypes: schemas applied to groups; generalizations of how members think or act.