Social Science Social Cognition

Question 1

What is social cognition?

Answer 1

The study of social knowledge and cognitive processes. (leans heavily on theory and methodology of cognitive psychology)

Question 2

What is an example of cognitive psychology?

Answer 2

Stroop effect (stroop, 1935)

Question 3

What does social cognition focus on?

Answer 3

The understanding of how we cognitively process and respond to social information (is an approach that permits unexpected insights into social behaviour)

Question 4

what is categorisation?

Answer 4

grouping of two or more distinguishable objects that are treated in a similar way (classical view, prototype view, exemplar view)

Question 5

What is a schema

Answer 5

A mental structure to organise knowledge about the social world. knowledge associated with a category is a schema

Question 6

Statistical beleifs contain what?

Answer 6

specific numbers

Question 7

Generic beleifs do not contain

Answer 7

specific numbers e.g books are paperbacks.

Question 8

what are steriotypes

Answer 8

Typically generic beleifs, removed from statistics

Question 9

What do we use concepts for?

Answer 9

making sense of the world (categories), to guide basic perception, guide interpretation of social information, and allow us to go beyond the information given. using concepts are essential to getting by in the world.

Question 10

Trying not to think of something requires two processes which are?

Answer 10

• Intentional operating process (IOP) search for distractors (effortful).
• Ironic monitoring process (IMP) monitors whether IOP is successful (automatic, effortless). does this by searching for target word popping up.

Question 11

What are controlled processes more prone to?

Answer 11

disruption (ironic effects of mental control)