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Chap 3: Social Cognition - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Accessibility
        
        chronically accessible
        due to past experience
        
        Eg. History of alcoholism
        
        Eg. knowing someone
        with mental illness
        
        temporarily accessible if
        related to a current goal
        
        Eg. studying for an abnormal
        psychology exam
        
        Eg. Suspecting someone of lying
        
        temporarily accessible
        due to priming
        
        Priming
        
        Goal Pursuit
        
        choosing between conflicting goals
        can be strongly influenced by priming
        
        Splitting $1 coins
        
        Results
        
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        primes must be accessible
        and applicable
        
        recent experiences increase accessibility of
        schema, trait or concept
        
        Intepreting Donald
        
        :one: Memorise words while
        identifying different colours
        
        :two: Give impressions on Donald
        
        participants who memorised positive words that applied to Donald's behaviour reported more positive impressions
        
        occurs quickly, unconsciously
        and unintentionally
        
        "extent to which schemas and concepts
        are at forefront of people's minds"
    - - Rosenthal & Jackson
        
        Results
        
        teachers treat
        bloomers differently by
        
        provide more opportunities for
        bloomers to respond
        
        provide more material that
        is challenging
        
        providing a warmer
        emotional climate
        
        provide better feedback
      - actively acting on schemas
      - having an expectation
        of an individual
        
        influences behaviour
        around said individual
        
        individual behaves consistently
        with expectations as a result
    - - organise knowledge to interpret
        the world around us
        
        Korsakov Syndrome
        
        lose ability to form new memories
        
        approach each situation
        like its their first time
        
        people invent new schemas
        where none exist
      - interpret unfamiliar situations
        and new experiences
        
        More ambiguity => more reliance on schemas
    - - self-knowledge
        
        ourselves
      - others-knowledge
        
        specific person
      - stereotypes
        
        social roles
      - specific events
  - - - People in room sprayed with Windex were
        more trusting of strangers and
        more likely to donate
      - People holding :hotsprings: coffee
        perceived stranger as friendlier
- - - - Schwarz
        
        Conditions
        
        Participants recall 6 instances of
        when they acted assertively
        
        Participants recall 12 instances of
        when they acted assertively
        
        Results
        
        participants rated themselves as more assertive when they could easily recall instances of assertiveness (6 instances condition)
  - - - "info about relative frequency of members in different categories of a population"
    - - "accepting as true personality descriptions that are so vague that they can be applied to anyone"
      - tendency to not go beyond representative instances that the description brings to mind
        
        Eg. There are just as many times
        I did not feel or act this way
- - - - could be caused by third
        unknown variable such as
        an unconscious thought
      - conscious thought and
        subsequent behaviour
        are correlated
    - - facilitator typing answers to questions when it should be communication-impaired client
    - - exert more control of their actions
        in the face of temptation
      - in society's best interest to
        believe we have it
  - - - conscious and effortful
      - may not be intentional
        or voluntary
      - easier to mentally undo outcome
        stronger the emotional reaction
    - - Failing by one mark
      - Getting silver
    - - Increases belief in God
        
        Participants that wrote about how their lives would be worse off without something good expressed more religious faith
      - Rumination
        
        when people repetitively focus
        on negative aspects of their life
        
        Could lead to depression
      - Motivate one to do better
  - - - consciously recalling previous
        experiences completing a similar task
    - - people believe that this
        time will be different