PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Social Cognition, Confirmation Bias, Fallacy
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Chapter 4 social cognition: thinking about people & situations. Studying social cognition 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. So(cid:272)ial sti(cid:373)uli rarely i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e people"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior dire(cid:272)tly; they do so i(cid:374)dire(cid:272)tly through the (cid:449)ay they"re i(cid:374)terpreted a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)strued. Mistakes can reveal a great deal about how a system works by showing its limitations. Minimal info: inferring personality from physical appearance. 2 dimensions stood out when judgments were correlated with one another: positive-negative dimension, involving such assessments as whether someone is seen as trustworthy or untrustworthy, aggressive or not aggressive. Judgments; whether they should be approached or avoided: power, involving assessments such as whether someone sees confident or bashful, dominant or submissive. Judgment; whether they"re likely to (cid:271)e top dog or u(cid:374)derdog. Judgments based on thin slices of behavior have a certain sort of validity.
