PSYCH 360 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Hindsight Bias, Counterfactual Thinking, Confirmation Bias
14 Apr 2014
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1 set of rules that represent what we know about categories of objects or events in general, and are built up from experience schemas. 1 schemas tell us what to expect & what not to expect. A familiar sequence of events is expected: traits behaviors of others. : general personality dispositions that help us to organize information about the: stereotypes. : general social categories that we use to categorize people: they are abstract representations about a group, but they aren"t necessarily accurate, they"re dangerous because they often overpower individual differences, culturally shared stereotypes. : culturally-shared beliefs about a social group: prototype. When asked to name a bird, most people would pick robin. : exemplar. Influence what we can remember: help us to fill in details or make inferences. Influence what information we attend to: help us to interpret ambiguous information, can influence how we behave. 1 the likelihood that a schema will be used in processing new information schema accessibility.
