Psychology 3721F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Availability Heuristic, Social Cognition
14 Mar 2012
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Chapter 2 social perception & social cognition. Social cognition = our thought processes about other people, ourselves, and social situations how we understand and make sense of social stimuli ; gather, organize, and interpret info. 1st stage of social cognition is perception (= the reception and organization of sensory info) (5 characteristics of perception: 1. Perception is immediate ; no apparent delay: 2. Perception is selective ; attention only focuses on a few objects @ once, it is an active process: 3. Perception is structured ; the separate groups of stimuli are integrated into a structured whole: 4. Best illustrated by our constancies in perception: apparent size, shape, and color of objects remain constant even though we view them from different distances and angles and in different amounts of light: 5. Our perceptual experience is organized into meaningful categories. Some ways in which perception of people is unlike perception of objects: 1.
