PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thought Suppression, Stroop Effect, Paradoxical Reaction
16 Apr 2016
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Mental control goal pursuit: efforts to control external world. Mental control: efforts to control internal world goal pursuit requires mental control (don"t think about chocolate if you"re trying to lose weight) We identify things in our environment that threaten our ability to achieve goals, and we try and keep these things out of our minds. We have a mental plan to suppress a thought how ironic. Wegner argues that this is ironic b/c attempts to suppress thoughts result in a subsequent rebound in accessibility of those thoughts. Attempts to suppress thoughts result in subsequent rebound of those thoughts (ex: dieting often causes subsequent overeating) Stream of consciousness task: verbalize thoughts for next 5 minutes. Manipulate (after practice): half told to suppress thought then express thought (experimental, other half told to express thought and then suppress thought (control) Those in express condition told to not think about white bear, then told to think about white bear.
