FRHD 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Ageism, Stereotype Threat, Negativity Bias

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3040
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

& use these resources less efficiently- therefore their social judgment processing is affected. Knowledge accessibility & social judgments: social knowledge: when faces with new situations, we draw on previous experiences stored in memory. Older adults may rely on easily accessible social knowledge structures (first impression)- could be a function of limited cognitive resources to process detailed info presented after the first impression is formed. Framing effect: occurs when info you just processed influences subsequent social judgments. Ex, changing judgment positively based on knowing it was a sunny day, rather than gloomy. Evidence this occurred in younger & older adults, but younger adults stronger than older: processing capacity- degree to which process resources are available during a cognitive task. Stereotypes: special type of social knowledge structure or social belief that represent organized prior knowledge about a group of people & that affects how we interpret new info.