From subjects to participants = informed consent = you should know by regulation

Debriefing  necessity to specify No more than minimal risks

 what are the minimal risks? Inherited in our daily life

 consent form

Social Cognition = Understanding the world

What is social cognition?

 how people interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world

● Relevant Topics
 Schemas

 Heuristics and Automatic Processing

 Potential Sources of Error in Social Cognition  Affect and Cognition

 the amount of the information we aare exposed every day

 understanding people = understand their social environment

Schemas

 ●  Schemas influence three basic processes: it affects the entire process of

information processing
 Attention (They affect what is noticed)
 Encoding (They affect what is stored in memory)
 Retrieval (They affect what is recovered from memory)
 ●  What do schemas result in? = facilitate our information processing
 ●  When are their effects stronger? = cognitive

 Outcomes dependents = when the outcomes is relevant to you

 Make sense of people, categorize people
 To target people -> is a way thought which you can codify people
 Simplification of information
 Effects on time

PARENT A:

Although parent B has more money and a closer relationship with the children, the life condition of
Parent A are more suitable for the children. Also considering that parents B has not that much time
to spend with his child. Plus this would enable to facilitate their relations.

2 questions= opposite but different result -> why?

CHOOSING VS REJECTING
 1. Confirmatory hypothesis testing  ‘seek and ye shall find’
2. Negative factors = see who has more negative elements

 FRAMING EFFECTS

Activity 2

Different between live and die =

- Die = people preferred risks, probability

- Live= certainty is preferred over probability

CONCLUSION= Choices involving gains are often risk averse, and choices involving losses are
risk-taking

Pygmalion effect

1. Important phenomena in psychology

- Self-fulfilling prophecy = ‘expectations create reality’

Golem effect = the opposite of Pygmalion effect

Perseverance effect

 Schemas are very resistant to change!!!

 How do we deal with inconsistent information

HEURISTSICS

● What are heuristics? Shortcuts about making decisions = rule of thumbs -=> helps
make fats decisions or draw fats differences

● Types of heuristics:
 Representativeness = representative needs

 resemblences = Typical characteristics

WHERE IS THE TRUTH?

 SOCIAL MEDIA AND TV

 We make judgments on how easy we can gather information and target people  AVAILABILITY =
THE EASIER YOU CAN THINK OF AN EXMAPLE THE MORE YOU THINK IT IS LIKELY TO
HAPPENS A LOT

 AVAILABILITY also means = it is anywhere, it can happens to anyone  because we are constantly
surrounded by information = the more you read or see something the more convinced you become=
about the probability of that happening and the importance of that phenomena. !!!!!

 Availability VS things who happens silent

 War in UKRAINE, war in the Middle East

KEY WORD= EASILY

 Anchoring and adjustment:

8 as an anchor

- The anchor is arbitrary chosen

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 Simulation

It is for us to come upo with a different scenario for MR. Tees

The psychology of regret = do you regret more about something you have done or something you have
not done