PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Prototype Theory, Availability Heuristic, Parallel Computing
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How people think about themselves and the social world. How people select, interpret, remember, and use social information. A physical object that has the ability to engage in social cognition. Thinking that is non-conscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless. Automatic analysis of our environments based on our past experiences and knowledge of the world. Helps us understand new situations by relating them to our prior experiences through the use of schemas. Perception becoming aware of something through the senses: pre-attentive processes rapid processing of a complex scene. Complex is a large, multi-element display of information. Something that catches your eye or pops out at you . Reflect something that is more fundamental for survival. When you see a table of random objects and one of them is a gun, then people quickly look at the gun first: gaze detection. If you are walking through a crowd and if someone is starting at you, then you might stare back.
