Lecture 2: Social Cognition and Biases

Question 1

Define social psychology

Answer 1

how our perceptions and behaviour are affected/influenced by others

Question 2

Define Social cognition

Answer 2

how we process and store social information and how this affects our perceptions and behaviour

Question 3

Define attribution

Answer 3

process of assigning a cause to out own behaviour and that of others

Question 4

Define a schema

Answer 4

knowledge about concepts
make sense with limited information
facilitate top down processing

Question 5

Define a category

Answer 5

organised hierarchically
fuzzy set of features organised around a prototype

Question 6

Define a prototype

Answer 6

cognitive representation of typical defining features of a category

Question 7

Define causal attribution

Answer 7

an interference process through which perceives attribute an effect to one or more causes