Psychology 2070A/B Chapter 3: Chapter #3 - social cognition.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: James M Olson

Document Summary

Social cognition the study of how information about people is processed and stored. Unexpected actions arouse our curiosity and lead to attempts to understand why the object is exhibiting characteristics that are inconsistent with its category. This means these cultures are likely to differ in the schemas that are most chronically dependence o accessible to them. Reconstructive memory the process of trying to cognitively rebuild the past based on cues and estimates: we find the schema that goes with what we are trying to remember and then make estimate from there. Autobiographical memory stored information about the self, such a goals, personality traits, past experiences, and other qualities memory about our self, including our personal history. If human memory can be unreliable it is prob risky to rely on someone"s memory for important decisions. 4: small correlation but people who misidentify the perpetrator are often just as confident o confident ones.