Social Cognition

Catalog description

Investigation of a wide range of social phenomena from a cognitive perspective. Various aspects of cognitive processes are applied to how people interpret, analyze, remember and use information about the social world. The role of major cognitive processes such as attention, encoding, memory, concept formation, retrieval, thinking and problem solving, are studied in relation to topics such as: schemas and schema use, social perception, attribution, self-knowledge, stereotyping, persuasion, attitudes and attitude change. Current theories and research in social cognition are also discussed and are demonstrated through “hands on” experiments.