SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - Social Cognition

Question 1

What is social cognition?

Answer 1

Input of stimulus - perception or recall from memory
Social cognition - information processing
Output - behaviour response or memory created

Question 2

How are impressions of others formed?

Answer 2

Asch
There’s central which is warm and cold
There’s peripheral which is polite and blunt

Question 3

What did Fiske argue about biases in forming impressions?

Answer 3

Negative is more travel and hard to shift their impressions.
It also depends on peoples facial structure like their nose shape.

Question 4

Motivated tactician?

Answer 4

The Motivated Tactician model suggests people use different thinking strategies based on their goals—they can think carefully or take mental shortcuts depending on what best serves their motives at the time (like accuracy, self-protection, or efficiency).

For example when we need to think carefully about a persons advice then we think carefully about
But if we care t bothered and need to pick a movie then we go with what our friend wants this is a mental shortcut so we can switch between thoughtful and quick when we want too or need to

Question 5

Factors affecting social congnition?

Answer 5

• stereotypes
• previous experience
• context
• physical bias
• culture

Question 6

Positve impact at start of list

Answer 6

Made it better in the curve

Question 7

Negative impact on the start?

Answer 7

Much more negative