Social Cognition & Affect Flashcards

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What is the human mind unlike?

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A tape recorder

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In what way is it impossible for humans to record events?

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Exactly as they see them

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In what way is it impossible for humans to recall events?

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Like a tape that has been rewound.

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To what does cognition refer?

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To the many different processes we use to understand and make sense of the world.

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How does cognition apply to the social world?

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As it refers to the way in which we analyse, interpret, remember, and use information about our social world.

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What kind of theories from cognitive psychology can be applied to social psychology?

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Those related to attention, memory, inference, and concept formation in helping people understand others.

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What is social cognition?

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The mental activity that relates to social activities and helps us meet the goal of understanding and predicting the behaviour of ourselves and others.

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With what are we bombarded from our social environment?

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Information and stimuli

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How do we absorb our environment?

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Via our attention

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What do we devise to simplify incoming information?

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Short-cut strategies

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What offers us a way of simplifying incoming information?

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Categorisation

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What is social categorisation?

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The process of understanding what something is by knowing what other things it is equivalent to, and what other things it is different from.

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What is a way of classifying some collection of objects, events, opinions, attitudes, concepts, or people?

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Social categorisation

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What does social categorisation save us?

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Time and cognitive processing.

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What are schemas in the context of social psychology?

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Mental frameworks that centre around a specific theme that help us to organise social information.

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