PSY331H1 Lecture Notes - The Automatic, Thought Suppression, Confirmation Bias

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21 Sep 2012
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People think about other people more than anything else! Although we need people to meet our goals (such as belongingness), we also compete with them for other goals. We pay attention to other people"s emotions to gauge how we are doing and how we, ourselves, are feeling. They do not want to think more than necessary and expend cognitive resources when we don"t have to. This is similar to freud"s theory of the dual mind composed of the conscious and unconscious. There are two systems, that automatic and the conscious. The automatic: is like a robot helper that helps you with things you are already good at and don"t need to think about. It"s all about quick decisions, effortlessness, good with familiar things, and things you have done often. The controlled: careful, effortful thinking and decision making. Like is someone asked you to list the first ten numbers in alphabetical order. Lacks intention we do not do it on purpose.

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