social cognition

Question 1

social cognition

Answer 1

how people select,interpret,remenber, and use social information to make judgments and decisions

Question 2

five critical aspects of social cognition

Answer 2

1- judgements are only good if the information are good , sometimes the information is not complete

2-how information is presented may affect our judgment

3- we seek out information wich may be bias

4-our pre-existing bias and information impacts how we see new information

5-reason and intuition > social cognition> judgment

Question 3

what are the goals for social cognition

Answer 3

-accuracy
- self-enhacement
-conserving mental resources

Question 4

schema

Answer 4

mental structures that help us organize social information that we recive

Question 5

types of schemas

Answer 5

person schema : apperance,behavior,personality

self-schema

social schema : going out with friends

event schema : job interview

can lead to automatic thinking

Question 6

what are the dual process theory

Answer 6

automatic and controlled

Question 7

automatic process

Answer 7

fast
unitentional
intuitive
implicit memory
efficient

Question 8

controlled process

Answer 8

slow
takes effort
perpesfull
rational
intentional

Question 9

what is priming?

Answer 9

when a concept or other knowdge structure is automatically triggered or activated by an environmental stimulus, their by becoming more likely to affect subquent thoughts,feeling and behaviour

Question 10

old people words and walking slower then people who didn’t see the words

Question 11

what is the cognitive load theory?

Answer 11

we possed a limit capacity for working memory and,if presented with information that exceeds this capacity ,information overload occurs

fewer cognitive resources> inhibits controlled process when making quick judgments

Question 12

heuristics

Answer 12

mental shortcuts or rules of thumb for problem-solving or probability judgment

-representativness
-availabilty
-base-rate fallacity
-anchoring and adjustment

Question 13

representative heuristic

Answer 13

categorizing a particular instance based on how similar the instance is to an existing mental prototype

the thing/person represents the prototype in real life
or how that thing/person relates to that representation/prototype in tour head

Question 14

avalibility heuristic

Answer 14

priming

making judgment about the frequency or likehood of an event based on how easily it comes to mind

make judgment based on how available the information was to the individual

example: I see the news and there was an car accident of a specific road, im more likely to say that road is more dangerous

Question 15

base-rate fallacy

Answer 15

ignoring how unlikely that event is from happening but instead focus on that atypical instance

ex:being afraid of flying even though plane accidents are unlikely

Question 16

anchoring adjustiment

Answer 16

rely on readily available information on which to base estimation and then to adjust that estimate up

ex:wich answer is right in a test a or all the above

Question 17

what is the cold vs hot mental process

Answer 17

cold cognitive:no particular stake ,less relevent to feelings or goals

hot cognition: mental process influenced by desired feelings or goals (biast)

Question 18

motivated resoning

Answer 18

maintaing an illusion of objectivity

search memory for beliefs and rules that support desired conclusion

Question 19

confirmation bias

Answer 19

the tendacy to process information by looking for,or interpreting , information that is consistent with one’s existing belif

Question 20

belif perseverance

Answer 20

holding onto a belif that has been undermined facts