Social Cogntion Flashcards
What is cognition?
Rapid, automatic behaviours
What is social cognition?
How social information is acquired, organised and used
Social cognitive model of information processing
What is consistency seeker?
It’s the rationalising mind.
It reduces discpreincies in cognition
Holding 2 opposing cognitions causes distress
Social cognitive model of information processing
What is naive scientist
As later research showed were ok with opposing cognitions
People fit information into their theory of how the world works
Social cognitive model of information processing
What is Heider attribution theory?
If own behaviour is motivated we look for motivations in other people’s behaviour
Causal theories so we predict environment
Attribute causality based on internal traits
Cognitive misers?
When people use heuristics to solve problems
When do people use heuristics?
When time or cognitive resources not permitted
