2021-09-14
• Zoom chat
• Stay informed! Read announcements
• Plan your own schedule for readings
– Starting with chapters 2, 4, 5: Self chapter (CH3) is out of
order and comes later
• Join a conference group if you haven’t yet
– Submit a thought paper if you missed first conference
• Studying:
– Research is a key part of the course and will be tested:
memorizing names and dates is not necessary
– Open Book tests: But don’t expect to have enough time to
consult text and notes for every question
• What I was doing two years ago…
1
, 2021-09-14
• “plane crash”
• or “air show”?
2
, 2021-09-14
Knowledge Activation
• Consider all the possible elements of social
knowledge that could be used to think about a
social stimulus
– Gender/racial/age stereotypes,
– Traits and other personality characteristics
– Social/occupational roles,
– Context-related categories and dimensions
– Various “procedural knowledge” judgments e.g.,
causal attribution, hypothesis testing
• Which elements get used in construal of the
social stimulus?
3
• Zoom chat
• Stay informed! Read announcements
• Plan your own schedule for readings
– Starting with chapters 2, 4, 5: Self chapter (CH3) is out of
order and comes later
• Join a conference group if you haven’t yet
– Submit a thought paper if you missed first conference
• Studying:
– Research is a key part of the course and will be tested:
memorizing names and dates is not necessary
– Open Book tests: But don’t expect to have enough time to
consult text and notes for every question
• What I was doing two years ago…
1
, 2021-09-14
• “plane crash”
• or “air show”?
2
, 2021-09-14
Knowledge Activation
• Consider all the possible elements of social
knowledge that could be used to think about a
social stimulus
– Gender/racial/age stereotypes,
– Traits and other personality characteristics
– Social/occupational roles,
– Context-related categories and dimensions
– Various “procedural knowledge” judgments e.g.,
causal attribution, hypothesis testing
• Which elements get used in construal of the
social stimulus?
3
