Assignment: Processing and Social Schemas
Both automatic and controlled processing affect our attitudes, attributes, and perceptions including the perception of self as individuals engage in social cognition and create mental representations of the world. However, mental representations are often incomplete. Social schemas help fill the gaps in mental representations. In this assignment, you will consider automatic and controlled processing with the notion of social schemas in order synthesize these components of information processing.
Discuss;
1) How automatic and controlled processing create mental representations of our social world.
2) How automatic and controlled processing create judgments of our social world.
3) How social schemas create mental representations of our social world.
4) How social schemas create judgments of our social world.
5) Provide a synthesis of these ideas that accounts for theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding mental processes and then draws conclusions about what happens when these ideas are considered together.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.