Psych 370 1st Edition Lecture 20Outline of Last Lecture I. Study guide for exam 3Outline of Current Lecture II. Early studies III. More recent studies Current LectureII. Early studiesa. Social cognition- the way in which we interpret, analyze, remember and use information about the social world. b. Impression formation.i. At this time we weren’t looking much into cognition yet. ii. Asch did a study to tell how we form impressionsiii. He randomly assigned people to groups. People were told to tell what they thought about the person. They groups differed by one word from the description; it was either cold or warm. People often said the warm description was nicer. iv. Warm and cold were then discovered to be central traits (traits that have really strong impression on how we view others. c. Attribution theoriesi. Attribution- trying to figure out why people do what they do. ii. Its either personal or situational.1. Personal- the cause of an action is internal to the actor.2. Situational- the cause of an action is external to the actor. iii. Correspondent inference theory 1. People try to infer cause of single instance of behavior by determining whether it corresponds to stable personality trait of the actor. a. Is it freely choosen b. Is it unexpected c. Is the outcome undesirableiv. Covariation principle1. For something to be the cause of a behavior it must be present when behavior occurs and absent when it does not occurThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.a. Consensus: how do others react to the same stimulus? b. Consistency: how does the actor react to the same stimulus across different situations?c. Distinctiveness: how does the actor react to different stimuli?i. Ex. Your friends tells you this movie is awesome and you should go see it. You ask yourself “okay do others people like this movie? Does she often give me reviews on things? And does she often tell me alot of movies are good?”d. These views saw people are little scientist and thinking through every decision thoroughly. III. More Recent theories. a. Two types of thinking i. Automatic- implicit/ not much control very effortlessii. Controlled- opposite of automaticiii. Categorization- is like filling in the blank1. We have many schemas that we put into different categories. a. Ex. Since you have a schema for chairs you’re able to walk into a classroom with chairs you’ve never seen before and know where to sit. 2. We also do this with scripts. a. Ex. You go to a fast food restaurant over seas. You know to wait in line and pay and wait for food because you have a script that is similar to it. i. Priming is setting up a personto think someway about another person. This is short-lived though. b. The new way of thinking looks at it as a way that people are busy and don’t want to spend extra time thinking if they don’t have