PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Stroop Effect, Belief Perseverance, Cognitive Psychology
6 Feb 2016
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Social psychology lecture #5 social beliefs and judgements the scienti c study of how people think (and feel about), in uence and relate to one another. What we associate with certain type of person (ex. shy person, warm person) expectations about sequences of events in social situations. What we associate with certain situations (restaurant schemas, birthday parties). why do we have schemas? allow us to move easier through our social world: reduce the amount of information to process, reduce uncertainty/ ambiguity. The problem with schemas : schemas can distort reality and memories. Women"s hockey olympic game with us or against us hostile media phenomenon: opposing partisan groups both perceive neutral hostile media phenomenon: opposing partisan groups both perceive neutral media presentations as hostile to their side due to their biased perspective. Teachers also thought they weren"t doing this intentionally. study: regardless of her beauty, women sound more beautiful when believed to be so behavioural con rmation fundamental attribution error.
