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Problem 1 Social Cogninition( Super Summary) Flashcards

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What is a social cognition?

A

Cognitive processes and structures that influence and are influenced by social Behaviour.

Thinking about other people’s feelings

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More in social cognition?

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  • Interpreting other peoples communicative signals

- Not unique to humans

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What is an attribution?

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Process of assigning a cause to our own Behaviour and that of others. How we make sense of our (social) world and other people’s actions.

Why does this person behave like he/she does?

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What are the two types of attributions?

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Internal/dispositional attributions: Behaviour is determined by people’s personality

External/situational attributions: Behaviour is determined by the situation

(E.g: I greet my neighbor in the street and she doesn’t greet me back : is she rude? Did she forget her glasses?

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What is a cognitive short cut?

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People use the least complex demanding cognitions, this causes error and biases

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Some cognitive short cuts?

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  • Schemas
  • Biases
  • Heuristics

—> help to navigate the overwhelming amount of social info in our environments

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What is the configurar model?

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Model of impression formation, in which central traits play a disproportionate role in configuring the final impression

Central traits va peripheral

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What are two types of biases?

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Biases forming impressions:

—> Primacy: First info is more important or either people pay more attention to it

—> Recency: Later information has more impact than earlier information

—>Positive Impression:When there is no info available

—>Negative Impression: we give more negative than positive impressions

Stereotypes: Shared and simplified evaluative image of a social group and its members

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What is a schema?

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Cognitive structure that represent knowledge about a concept or type of stimulus.

Allows quickly make sense of something with prior knowledge

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What are different types of schemas?

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  • Script: schema about an event, makes an event meaningful
  • Person schema: about a known person (eg friend)

Role schema: relative to job (Eg pilot)

Self schema: Info about our self (identity)

Content free schema: limited number of rules for processing information

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What is a prototype?

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Typical/ideal defining features of a category

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What are fuzzy sets?

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Categories are fuzzy sets of features organized around a prototype

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What are exemplars?

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Specific instances of a member of a category (eg: America’s=Barack Obama’s)

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What are associative networks?

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Model of memory in which ideas are connected by associative links along which cognitive activation can spread

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What is the social identity theory?

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Theory of group membership and inter group relations based on self categorization, social comparison and the construction of a shared self definition in terms of ingroup defining properties

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What is the self categorization theory?

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How the process of categorizing oneself as a group member produces social identity and group and inter group Behaviour

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What is accessibility?

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Ease of recall of categories or schemas that we already have

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What are the three ways of changing schemas?

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Bookkeeping

Conversion

Subtyping

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What is a bookkeeping?

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Gradual schema change through the accumulation of bits of schema-inconsistent information

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What is conversion?

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Sudden schema change as a consequence of gradual accumulation of schema inconsistent information

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What is subtyping?

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Schema change as a consequence of schema inconsistent information causing the formation of subcategories

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What is social encoding?

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Receiving for information in the environment (scanning the environment)

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In social encoding what three things capture our attention?

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Salience

Vividness

Priming

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What is salience?

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A stimuli that stands out amongst others (eg a man in the middle of many women )

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What is vividness?

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Vivid stimuli attract attention due to emotional interest,gory image, close in time and place (eg a violent crime)

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Priming?

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Accesible categories due to interest and goals (eg: sex discrimination seen everywhere due to my interest in that topic)

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What is social inference?

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Identification of information to form impressions and make judgements

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What are the three types of social inference?

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-Normative models

Behavioral decision theory

Regression

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What are normative models?

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Ideal processes for making accurate social inferences

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What is the behavioral decision theory?

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Set of normative models

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What is regression?

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Tendency to exaggerate observations based on initial observations (eg: restaurant is really good, so we think that it is always good until we go back and see that is acc less good than we thought it was. What

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What are heuristics?

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Cognitive short cuts that provide accurate inferences for most of us most of the time

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What are three types of heuristics?

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  • Representativeness heuristic
  • Availability heuristic
  • Anchoring and adjustment
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What is the representativeness heuristic?

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Instances are assigned to categories on the basis of overall similarities or resemblance to the category (eg: singer should look attractive/Susan Boyle opposite)

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What is an availability heuristic?

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Frequency or likelihood of an event is based on how quickly instances or associations come to mind (eg: media shows violent Muslims, we think that it is frequent to find violent Muslims)

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What is anchoring and adjustment?

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Inferences are tied to initial standards or schemas (eg: we judge someone on basis of ourself,ourself=anchor)

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What is the affect infusion model?

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Cognition is infused with affect such that social judgements reflect mood

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