PSYCH253 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Social Cognition, Confirmation Bias, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH253
• Professor: Hilary B Bergsieker

Document Summary

This chapter"s discussion of social cognition - and sources of error in judgment about the social world - proceeds in five parts. The study of how people think about the social world and arrive at judgments that help them interpret the past, understand the present, and predict the future. Mistakes provide particularly helpful clues about how people think about others and make inferences about them. Errors provide hints about strategies, rules that people follow to make judgments. Minimal information: inferring personality from physical appearance. Snap judgment - impressions based on the briefest glances. This indicates that people can make reasonably accurate judgments from. Misleading firsthand information: pluralistic ignorance thin slices of behaviour. Firsthand information is more accurate because it has the advantage of not having been filtered by someone else, who might slant things in a particular direction. Firsthand experience can also be deceptive or unrepresentative.