Kinesiology 3347A/B Lecture 3: Social Psych 2070- Chapter 3

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 3347A/B
• Professor: Vincent Liardi

Document Summary

Automatic thinking: thinking that is nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless. 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. Given a label, we fill in the blanks with all kinds of schema-consistent information (stereotypes) Role schema: expectations about people in particular roles and social categories. Types of schemas are: self-schema, person schema, and event schema. They guide our: attention and encoding, how quick we notice, what we notice, how we interpret what we notice. Korsakov"s syndrome: everything one encounters was inexplicable, confusing, and unlike anything you"d ever known. Objects do not get instantly recognized, like a chair where instead it is seen as a wooden object with four legs. Accessibility: the extent to which schemas and concepts are at the forefront of people"s minds and are therefore likely to be used when making judgments about the social world.