Social Cognition Flashcards
Assimilation
-Interpreting new information in terms of existing beliefs. We see what we expect to see. When we see info that supports, we encode it, if not we ignore it.
Automaticity
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Awareness
of stimulus, processing, and or influential factors
Behavioral confirmation
Our expectations lead us to act in ways that cause others to confirm our expectations. Related to the self fulfilling prophecy
Behavioral priming
-priming certain concepts may initiate behavior that is compatible with the concept
Bottom up processing
-data driven, turns into top down processing eventually.
Confirmation bias
Tendency to search for information that confirms our preconceptions
Controllability
ability to stop or alter process that has already been started
Embodied cognition
-our physical actions have an impact on our emotions
False consensus effect
-a person tends to overestimate the extent to which their beliefs or opinions are typical of those of others.
Fluency
-ease with which info is processed
Illusion of control
perception of events being under ones control when they are not *lottery ticket
Illusory correlation
overestimating relationship between two variables
Over confidence phenomenon
-Tendency to be more confident than correct, overestimate accuracy of one’s beliefs
Semantic priming
logically related words can facilitate activation of one another
Social cognition
-study of how we understand ourselves and others
Spreading activation
-A model for the association of ideas and memories that is based on activating one memory will trigger associated items.
Top down processing
-Using schemas to interpret information.
3 main principles that determine whether schemas influence thoughts
Direct attention, structure memories, and influence construals.
