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Attitude And Social Cognition

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What is Social Cognition?

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• Social cognition is the manner in which we gather, interpret, analyze, remember and use information about the social world.

• The study of social cognition deals with the mental processes by which we make sense of the world.

• Attitudes, impression formation and attributions are the three processes collectively called social cognition.

• It is activated by cognitive units called schemas (schemata).

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Highlight the importance of schemas in social cognition.

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Prejudice can exist without discrimination and vice-versa. Comment.

Describe the important factors that influence impression formation.

Explain how the attribution made by an 'actor' would be different from that of an 'observer'.

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Explain the concept of pro-social behaviour.

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