PSYB10H3 Chapter 4: Psyb10 Ch4
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4. of new info and influence our judgement. The way info is presenting (order, how it is framed) can alter our judgement. We don"t just passively take in info (we seek it out and a pervasive bias can distort our. Our preexisting knowledge, expectations and mental habits can influence the construal. Our judgements are only as effective as the quality of the info on which it is based (info. 2 mental systems (intuition and reason) underlie social cognition and their complex. Social cognition - study of how people think about the social world and arrive at judgments that help them interpret the past, understand present and print future. Social psychologists have always been interested in cognition. Social stimuli rarely directly influence ppls decisions. Mistakes help us do better next time and are informative to psychologists as well as they provide helpful clues as to how people think about other individuals and make inferences about them.
