SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - Social Cognition

Question 1

What is social cognition?

Answer 1

Input of stimulus - perception or recall from memory
Social cognition - information processing
Output - behaviour response or memory created

Question 2

How are impressions of others formed?

Answer 2

Asch
There’s central which is warm and cold
There’s peripheral which is polite and blunt

Question 3

What did Fiske argue about biases in forming impressions?

Answer 3

Negative is more travel and hard to shift their impressions.
It also depends on peoples facial structure like their nose shape.

Question 4

Motivated tactician?

Answer 4

Takes it futher but we are motivated by our own experiences and sense of self, taken on and what we dot and we are as people. Impressions about people Varys on their own experiences.

Question 5

Factors affecting social congnition?

Answer 5

• stereotypes
• previous experience
• context
• physical bias
• culture

Question 6

Positve impact at start of list

Answer 6

Made it better in the curve

Question 7

Negative impact on the start?

Answer 7

Much more negative