Social Cognition

4. our outward and observable actions that reflect our point of view about something
9. our emotions and intuitive feelings towards something, reflected in our attitude
11. An enduring positive or negative evaluation of someone or something
14. The mental process of forming impressions and opinions about others
15. An unpleasant psychological state that occurs when we become aware that there is inconsistency between our beliefs, attitudes, cognitions and behaviour

1. an often negative preconception held against people within a certain group or social category
2. our thoughts and beliefs towards something
3. an information processing strategy that involves forming judgements based on the first information received about an idea or concept
5. Bias in which our favourable or unfavourable impression of a person affects our assumptions about our future expectations of that person
6. an evaluation made about the causes of behaviour and the process of making this evaluation
7. a widely held belief and generalisation about a group, such as people, animals or objects
8. an individual’s current psychological state, involving their ability to think, process information, and regulate emotions
10. the unjust treatment of people due to their membership within a certain social category
12. A strategy for solving a problem, forming a judgement or making a decision that is based on experience with similar types of problems
13. the feeling of shame or disgrace experienced by an individual for a characteristic that differentiates them from others