PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.2: Class Discrimination, Dispositional Attribution, Headache
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13. 2 social cognition: the field of social-cognitive psychology is a fusion of social psychology"s emphasis on social situations and cognitive psychology"s emphasis on cognitions (perceptions, thoughts, and beliefs). Schemas are organized clusters of knowledge, beliefs, and expectations about individuals and groups, which influence our attention and perceptual processes in many ways. For example, a person"s visible characteristics (e. g. , gender, race, age, style of dress) all activate schemas, and these schemas can bring certain traits to mind automatically. In another study, the outcome of u. s. elections of congressional candidates could be predicted 70% of the time simply using participants" judgements of how competent the candidates appeared in photographs. I shouldn"t have gone in the first place" is a self-fulfilling prophecy: this idea has truly caught fire in north american society because it fits so well with the. If we are sports fans, we assume that sports is generally important for other people as well.
