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schema
- mental structure containing knowledge
about a particular type of person, event,
or social group or role
- exaggerate similarities within groups
and differences between groups
- generalised representation - abstracting
common features based on experience
- represent knowledge shared with others
- represent knowledge shared with others
- generalised representation - abstracting
common features based on experience
- exaggerate similarities within groups
and differences between groups
- often quick and efficient ways of making
sense of social experience - sometimes
produce biases and distortions
- tend to be self-confirming: we
see what we expect to see
- Darley & Gross Hannah Study - rich
children were seen as more similar to each
other (having a higher academic ability
- Hannah seen as having higher
ability when shown as having
high socioeconomic status
- information about academic ability was
interpreted according to expectations
based on socioeconomic schemas
- information about academic ability was
interpreted according to expectations
based on socioeconomic schemas
- Hannah seen as having higher
ability when shown as having
high socioeconomic status
- reduce cognitive processing - cognitive miser
model - simplify social world by indicating what
we should attend to
- motivated tactician model suggests
we carry out additional processing
when it helps to achieve goals
- Ruscher et al found people spent more time reading about a
person which was inconsistent with their schema when outcome
of a task required them to work as a pair with that person
- Ruscher et al found people spent more time reading about a
person which was inconsistent with their schema when outcome
of a task required them to work as a pair with that person
- important in identifying
distortions which may underlie
our judgements
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