SOCPSY SAS 1

It is the study of how information about people is processed and stored. Our thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs about people are influenced by the social context in which we interact with people.

• Social Cognition

• Kelley's Covariation Model

• Person Perception

• The Attribution Process

are also known as concepts

• perception

• schemas

• cognition

• attribution

It meets our needs to accurately perceive the world around us and to perceive ourselves in a positive light.

• Spiritual Cognition

• Emotional Cognition

• Social Cognition

• Personal Cognition

This is an expectation about how a certain event or situation should unfold.

• schema

• attribution

• self-fulfilling prophecy

• script

This processing helps us quickly respond to people we encounter, but it can also lead to errors in judging others that result in narrow mindedness and even prejudice.

• bottom-up processing

• top-down processing

• internal processing

• external attributions

It occurs when occurs when our expectations cause us unconsciously to act in a manner to bring about behaviors that confirm our expectations.

• social schemas

• script

• self-fulfilling prophecy

• internal attributions

Teachers who have high expectations of their students will often have students who work diligently to live up to those high expectations. What concept of Person Perception is being talked about in this scenario?

• script

• schemas

• external attribution

• self-fulfilling prophecy

We might assume that students who have learning disabilities cannot be gifted students as well. There is an inherent tendency to view students with learning disabilities as less intelligent than students who do not have learning disabilities. What concept of Person Perception is being talked about in this scenario?

• script

• social schemas

• external attribution

• self-fulfilling prophecy

Teachers were told that certain elementary school students would bloom (have rapid academic growth). At the end of the academic school year, the randomly chosen bloomers showed significantly greater gains in I.Q. than their control-group classmates. Teacher expectancies about the children directly influenced student performance on I.Q. tests (unconsciously, the teachers tended to use a larger vocabulary with and provide more stimulation to the bloomers). This is an example of what?

• script

• social schemas

• external attribution

• self-fulfilling prophecy

This process involves how we explain the causes of behavior (both our own behavior and the behavior of others).

• The Attribution Process

• The Cognitive Process

• The Gambler's Fallacy

• Cognitive Heurestics