PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Social Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Decision-Making
Document Summary
Cognitive affection use to be a black box. Past 30 years micro processes developed the social mind. The metaphor is the mind is a computer. Social cognition (borrowing heavily from cognitive psychology) has become the dominant paradigm in social psych in the past 20 years. Concept: a unit of knowledge (usually about a category). Information of category object (doesn"t need to be true or tangible)- -does not to be accurate knowledge. Stereotype is a concept (probably wrong but serves belief purpose) difficult to measure, but we can isolate some to see the impact of social norm. Younger children will make some mistakes, called cow doggy-save us a lot of trouble of processing everything. People have a good idea of how lawyer will behavior, but this does not hold for every lawyer, people use this everyday to interact with people: add information when there is too little available.
