Social Cognition

Cognitive miser

Goals of thinking

Schemas

Schemas influence three basic processes

cognitive load

Cognitive Load Theory

The use of schemas as a basic concept was first used by

Who popularised the concept of schemas?

Object schemas

Person schemas

Social schemas

Self-schemas

Event schemas (Scripts)

Schemas influence what we pay attention to

Schemas also impact how quickly people learn

Schemas help simplify the world

Schemas allow us to think quickly

Schemas can also change how we interpret incoming information

Schemas can also be remarkably difficult to change

Perseverance effect (Schema persistence)

Priming

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Pygmalion Effect

information overload

Heuristics

Representativeness heuristic

prototype

Example of representativeness heuristic

Availability heuristic

Example of availability heuristic

Anchoring and adjustment heuristic

Example of anchoring and adjustment heuristic

Affect heuristic

Example of affect heuristic

anchoring bias

Negativity Bias

Optimistic Bias

Overconfidence Barrier

Planning Fallacy

Counterfactual thinking

Thought suppression

rebound effect of thought suppression

Magical thinking

The Influence of Affect on Cognition

mood-dependent memory

Mood congruence effect

Affect and Cognition

Two-factor theory of emotion

Automatic Processing

Controlled processing

Satisficing

What topic do people spend the greatest amount of time thinking about?

Primacy effect

recency effect

Framing effect

Stroop effect

four elements that distinguish automatic from controlled processes

intention

control

effort

efficient

Automatic thinking involves little effort because it relies on knowledge structures.

Schema and Heuristic are two different things