Assignment task: Social Cognition
When you meet someone new, your brain processes various sources of information including the context in which you meet them, who they are associated with, and how they present themselves.
This processing of social information is called social cognition.
In this Assignment, you consider two people you have encountered and examine how you formed your impressions of them. Need Assignment Help?
Resources:
- Jhangiani, R. & Tarry, H. (2022). Principles of social psychology (1st international H5P ed.). BCcampus.
- Chapter 5.1, "Initial Impression Formation" Read the section titled: "Key Takeaways" only.
- Copyright © 2022 by Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani and Dr. Hammond Tarry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted., except where otherwise noted.
Spielman, R. M., Jenkins, W. J., & Lovett, M. D. (2020), Psychology 2e. Openstax.
- Chapter 12.1, "What is Social Psychology?"
- Copyright © 2020 by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License v4.0
Reynolds, A. (2021, February 7). Social psychology: Chapter 3 (Social cognition) Part 1 (YouTube)
Submit a 300- to 500-word paper, in which you:
Select one person in each category below:
A person you do not know and whom you probably will not see again (e.g., a cashier at the grocery store)
A person you have known for some time and for whom you can remember your first impressions (e.g., a coworker or boss, friend, partner). Do not select someone you have known since your birth or since their birth.
Briefly describe the context of your first interaction with each person.
Based on your reading of 5.1 Key Takeaways in Jhangiani and Tarry (2022), explain how Readings Jhangiani, R. & Tarry, H. (2022). Principles of social psychology (1st international H5P ed.). BCcampus. Chapter 5.1, "Initial Impression Formation"
Read the section titled: "Key Takeaways" only.
Copyright © 2022 by Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani and Dr. Hammond Tarry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted., except where otherwise noted. Spielman, R. M., Jenkins, W. J., & Lovett, M. D. (2020), Psychology 2e. Openstax.
Chapter 12.1, "What is Social Psychology?"
Copyright © 2020 by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
License v4.0
Reynolds, A. (2021, February 7). Social psychology: Chapter 3 (Social cognition) Part 1 (YouTube Video)
Based on your reading of Spielman et al. (2020), explain how you made internal and/or external attributions for each person's behavior. Provide details and explain the implications of making those internal and/or external attributions.
Based on the Reynolds (2021) video about social cognition, explain how you engaged in automatic thinking or controlled thinking when forming your first impression of each person. Describe what it means to engage in that type of thinking and why you engaged in that type of thinking.
To demonstrate what you learned this week, be sure to support your work with information from the Learning Resources.