Schemas

Question 1

Social Psychology

Answer 1

The science of social influence.

Question 2

What can people’s behaviour be influenced by?

Answer 2

Real, imagined or implied presence of others

Question 3

Gestalt Psychology

Answer 3

Holds to the idea that what you perceive is different to what is really occurring

Question 4

schemas

Answer 4

Are a cognitive structure which represents knowledge about a concept or a stimulus, including its attributes and the relations among these attributes.

Question 5

How do we interpret the world?

Answer 5

schemas

Question 6

Configuration model (Asch, 1946)

Answer 6

Proposes that when forming first impressions, people take more notice of central traits than peripheral traits

Question 7

Central traits

Answer 7

Have disproportioned influenced on impressions of others

Question 8

What is using a schema based on?

Answer 8

1. salience - a property of the target that attracts attention, what we focus on
2. priming - when exposure to a stimulus makes a subsequent mental process more likely or efficient
3. accessibility - the ease with which the schema comes to mind

Question 9

Hostile media phenomenon

Answer 9

we interpret a certain situation based on our pre-existing ideas

Question 10

Confirmation bias or the ‘Self-fulfilling prophecy’

Answer 10

existing schemas guiding what information we search for