PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Scientific Control, Cognitive Miser, Abnormal Psychology
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Chapter 3 social cognition: how we think about the social world. 3-01 chapter 3 began with a description of accident victim kevin chappell who suffered brain damage leaving him with a severe visual disability. ________ refers to the way people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions about themselves and others: counterfactual thinking, social cognition, automatic thinking, schemas, decision rules. ________ are the cognitive structures we use to organize our knowledge of the social world: social roles, schemas, heuristics, social cognitions, internal attributions. 3-06 mental structures that organize information in our social world are called: cognitive filters, counterfactuals, schemas, affect blends, heuristics. 3-07 which of the following can be considered to be good examples of schemas: stereotypes, conterfactuals, base rate information, heuristics, priming. In the study by kunda, sinclair, and griffin (1997), participants were told that a person was a salesperson or an actor and very extroverted.
