Lecture 1

Question 1

Perception (factors influencing) x 4

Answer 1

1) Individual differences - e.g. world view.
2) Socio-cultural factors - e.g. individualism vs collectivism, political / econimic systems.
3) Situational influences - e.g. salience of threat, value of work ethic.
4) Social -cognitive processes - tendency to make internal attributons e.g. stereotypes.

Question 2

Social Cognition is…

Answer 2

How we process information about others.
As important as navigating the physical world.
Many complex mechanisms have evolved to deal with this.

Question 3

Instinct Blindness

Answer 3

Humans studying one mind with another mind.
“Intuition systematically blinds us to the full universe of problems our minds spontaneously solve” (Cosmides and Tobey, 1994).