PSYCH-UA 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Leon Festinger, Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning
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Our responses to the social world depend to an enormous extent on how we interpret others" behaviours and how others interpret ours. Evident in the fact that if mary smiles at you, your reaction will be quite di erent if you think she was irting as opposed to merely being polite. If salesman recommends the macintosh rather than the edll, your purchase may depend on whether you believe the salesman is sincere or knowledgeable. In these cases, how we respond to other people depends on how we think about and. This crucial process of interpreting and thinking about the social world is referred to as interpret their actions. social cognition. Causal attribution--an inference about what caused a person"s behaviour. We interpret the visual images on our retinas by using top-down knowledge to supplement what we see. We draw inferences from the observations we make, to reach broader conclusions about the world. Similar intellectual activity is essential in the social domain.