PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Episodic Memory, Subcategorization, John Pendry

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Cognitive psychologists found that the human brain seems to almost automatically classify or categorize similar objects in the environment pervasive: shown in children as young as 6 mos old. >this led prejudice researchers to change their conceptualization of the nature of stereotyping. Stereotypes were no longer regarded as the product of lazy thinking by the uneducated or those w moral deficiencies. Instead, most researchers have taken allport"s lead and now regard stereotypes as a natural consequence of cognition. Humans have a limited capacity cognitive system that cannot simultaneously process all the available info in our social env. B. c we have a need to understand and even anticipate the behaviour of others, humans have developed ways around our limited cognitive system categorization being one of them. >we categorize things on the basis of shared features or even shared time and space.

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