Cognitive Approach Flashcards
Fundamental attribution error
Process of explaining someones behaviour we focus ok the person characteristic but not the situation
Confirmation bias
Tend to favour what we believe in
Hostile attribution behavior
Assume someones behaviour is violent when it is neutral
Person perception
When you meet someone you make an assumption
Memory scripts
Contain knowledge how social situation play out
Influence memory
Associative priming
Late and prime stimuli which are related but mot semantically
Semantic priming
Two stimuli which are the same and have same features
Repition priming
When you see it again you remember it quickly
Priming
A mental process which stimuli subconsciously triggers a cognitive reaction to form a memory
Schema
Mental structures that an individual uses to organise knowledge and which guide cognitive process
Confabulation
When gaps are filled to make the schema more meaningful
Rationalisation
Parts if the schema taken out to make it more meaningful
Shortening
Parts of the schemas taken out to make it shorter and meaningful
Reconstive memory
Produce a memory that makes sense to us and recal information as we assemble it
Cue (meaningful and non meaningful)
Meaningful cue
You learn this at the same time you learn other material
Non meaningful cue
You learn this when you learn experience
