Overview
Description
General principles of how people process information and make sense of their social environment; applications to social judgement, motivation, interaction, relationships, stereotyping and intergroup relations.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- identify important theories, findings and controversies pertaining to social cognition, and describe major insight from different areas of social-cognitive research.
- demonstrate familiarity with major empirical research methods in social psychological research on human cognition in its social context.
- demonstrate analytical skills in examining and critiquing theory and research pertaining to social psychological research on social cognition.