PSY BEH 104S Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Representativeness Heuristic, Daniel Kahneman, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
23 Oct 2017
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Chapter 4: social cognition thinking about people and situation. Why study social cognition: social cognition is the study of how people think about the social world and arrive at judgments that help them interpret the past. The information available for social cognition: depends first on information, understanding people depends on information; but sometimes people have little or no information on which to base their assessments, sometimes the available information is misleading. Looking back: the quality of people"s judgments derives in part from the quality of the information on which their judgments are based. Sometimes we have very little information at our disposal, as when we must make snap judgments about other people based only on their physical appearance and the tiniest samples of their behavior. Research indicates that the snap judgments people make show remarkable agreement with one another. The information available to us for closer examination may contain a number of potential biases.
