PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Base Rate, The Automatic, Pluralistic Ignorance
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Overview: how we think about our social world, how we make judgments about the social world, how we explain the social world, expectations of the social world. Social cognition: social cognition, how people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions. Social cognition: two types, automatic thinking, quick, effortless, nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, ex, controlled thinking, conscious, intentional, voluntary, and effortful, requires mental energy, one purpose is to check automatic thinking, i. e. when unusual events occur. Thought suppression and ironic processing: they act in tandem, first the automatic, then the controlled, but, when you are tired or preoccupied, you cannot engage in the controlled part, the automatic process runs wild, state of hyperaccessibility. Schemas: schemas, mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects and that influence the information people notice, think about, and remember, ex.
