PSYB10H3 Chapter 4: Social Cognition: Thinking About People & Situations
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Chapter 4: social cognition: thinking about people & situations. Studying social cognition: the field of social cognition is the study of how people think about the social world and arrive at judgements that help them interpret the past, understand that present, and predict the future. If we want to know how a person will react in a given situation, we must understand how the person experiences that situation. Large round eyes, a large forehead, high eyebrows, and a rounded, relatively small chin. In one study, participants were shown, for 1 second, pictures the republican and. Democratic candidates in us congressional elections and ask to indicate which candidates looked more competent: those judged to be more competent by most of the participants won 69% of the races. If a prophecy is to be self-fulfilling, there must be come mechanism that translates a given expectation into action that would tend to confirm the prophecy.
