List and describe the three basic processes of social cognition
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The three basic processes of social cognition are attention, encoding, and retrieval. Attention refers to the information we notice. Encoding refers to the processes we use to store noticed information in memory. Retrieval refers to how we recover information from memory in order to use it in some manner.
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a. fixed-ratio b. variable-ratio c. fixed-interval d. variable-interval
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a. concrete-operational b. formal-operational c. preoperational d. sensorimotor