Week 3 Flashcards
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What is a thought?
The internal language and symbols we use.
Is a thought often conscious?
Yes.
What does cognition often refer to?
Mental process that occurs automatically.
What is social cognition?
Social cognition refers to cognitive processes and structures that affect and are affected by social context.
What is it assumed about social cognition?
It is assumed that people have a limited capacity to process information and are cognitive misers who take all sorts of cognitive shortcuts; or they are motivated tacticians who choose, on the basis of their goals, motives and needs, among an array of cognitive strategies.
What is the difference between social cognition and social thinking?
Our awareness.
What are social cognition and social thinking?
Both mental activities.
How long was the term cognition taboo?
Half a century.
When was there a fresh interest in cognition?
By the 1960s.
Has social psychology always been strongly cognitive?
Yes.
What lead to an enormous amount of research on attitude change?
World war 2.
What did the enormous amount of research after world war 2 produce theories on?
Strive cognitive consistency.
What is cognitive consistency?
A model of social cognition in which people try to reduce inconsistency among their cognitions because they find inconsistency unpleasant.
What is the naive scienticist model?
The naïve scienticist is a model of social cognition that characterizes people as using rational, scientific-like cause-effect analyses to understand their world.
Why did the naive scienticist model fail?
The late seventies this model failed because it became clear that even in ideal circumstances people are not scientists at all.
What is social neuroscience?
The is exploration of brain activity associated with social cognition and social psychological processes and phenomena.
Do individuals spend a lot of time thinking about other people?
Yes.
Who do individuals form impressions of?
o People they meet
o People that are described to them
Do people communicate their impression of other people?
Yes.
What do people use their impressions of other people to do?
People use impressions to determine how they will think, feel and act.
What is the overall impression that we form of other people dominated by?
Stereotypes, unfavourable information, first impressions and idiosyncratic personal constructs.
What does research on forming impressions suggest?
Research suggests that in forming impressions of other people we weight components and then average them in complex way; or certain components may influence the interpretation and meaning of all other components and dominate the resulting impression.
Who constructed the configural model?
Solomon Asch.
What is the configural model?
Model of impression formation, in which central traits play a disproportionate role in configuring the final impression.