PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Abstract Art, Fallacy, Illusory Correlation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Schemas - mental structures that organize our knowledge about the world and influence how we interpret people and events. Person schemas - beliefs about other people, their traits, and goals. Self-schemas - refer to our memory, inferences, and information about ourselves. Role schemas - refer to behaviours that are expected of people in particular occupations or social positions. Event schemas - refer to scripts that we have for well-known situations, and are also known simply as scripts. Content-free schemas rules about processing information; not about particular categories, but they are like logical formulation about how contents are related. Priming - meaning the process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a given trait or concept. Representativeness heuristic refers to a tendency to perceive someone or something as belonging to a particular group or category on the basis of how similar this object is to a typical object in that category.