PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Konrad Lorenz, Asthma, Construals
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Chapter 4- social cognition: thinking about people and situations. Stories like this makes it clear that social judgments can have serious consequences, where mistaking a serial killer to be someone who is gentle and safe to be around with. This chapter focuses on social cognition: the sources of errors in judgment about the social world. Is 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. One of the earliest and most fundamental principles of social psychology is the construal principal (ch. 1) To find out the reaction of person in a given situation we must first understand how person experiences the situation. Social stimuli influences a person"s behaviors indirectly through the way they are interpreted and constructed. This example above [intro story] highlights the fact that our judgments aren"t always flawless.
