cognitive processing and SIT and SCT

Question 1

what factor influences our decision-making behavior?

Answer 1

We often don’t have enough past experience or knowledge to make a well-informed decision.

B. We often are not motivated to change past behaviors.

C. Decision-making takes too much cognitive energy, so we make the easiest choices.

Question 2

bottom up processing

Answer 2

sensory info, comes from interactions com enviroment

Question 3

top down pocessing

Answer 3

pre-stored info in memory

Question 4

we have cognitve

Answer 4

misers since we get so much info each day, this helps us deal with it (dont know, dont care)

Question 5

script

Answer 5

pattern of behavior which is learned through enviroment and developed within culture contex (not universal)

Question 6

sereal reproduction

Answer 6

A reads, tells to B
B tells to C

and so on

Question 7

repeated reproduction

Answer 7

tell to A,

asks A to repeat over various occasion

Question 8

memory processing stages

Answer 8

1. encoding- transforming sensory into to memory
2. storage- creating biological trace of encoded info in memory, then either consolidated or lost
3. retrieval- using stored info for thinking, problem solving ajnd decision making

Question 9

a lot of behaviur is determined by

Answer 9

social comparison

Question 10

behaviour can be B

Answer 10

bidirectional

group affects individual, individual affects group

Question 11

because humans are social animals, it is thought they have

Answer 11

a social and group self, and this will depend on location and people (SIT)

Question 12

SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY

Answer 12

predicts people have many versions of themselves

through:

SOcial ctorgrisation- similar characteristics, in/out groups

social comparison

tendency of people to use group memberhship for self esteem

Question 13

SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY ASSUMES

Answer 13

HUMANS LEARN THROUGH IBSERVATIOAL BEHAVUIOUR

Question 14

parts in SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY

Answer 14

Attention- paying attention to model (attractivness and authority matter)

Retention- remember behaviour observed

Motivation- outcome expectancy (what happens if behaviour is replicated, vicarious reinforcement

potential- physicaly/mentally being able to replicate behaviour

Question 15

it is easier to replicte behaviour if

Answer 15

model always acts the same

if we identify with the model (they are like us)

and liking the model