CSP 161 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Dissonance, Symbolic Racism, Implicit Attitude

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
• Course: CSP 161
• Professor: Andrew Elliot

Document Summary

Social cognition process by which people think about and make sense of other people, themselves, & social situations. Assumptions about social cognitions people are motivated to make sense of the world by seeing ordered patterns, social world is loaded with information, humans have a limited capacity of processing power. Cognitive miser we process a subset of the information around us just enough to survive. Malfunction cognitive bloopers that helps us learn about function. Jones and harris experiment people were shown pro/anti- Castro essays and were told that debater freely chose or was forced to write the essay in this way. Where then asked to rate the de(cid:271)ate(cid:396)"s a(cid:272)tual attitude. First the participants were either told that the girl belonged to a high or low social status. Then, half of each group are asked to rate the child right then and half were given a video of the child to watch.