Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Iced Coffee, Sad Movie, Representativeness Heuristic

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Hynes

Document Summary

System 1 processing: automatic processing: make a disgusted face when seeing something gross, answer to simple math problem, detect hostility in a voice, drive a car on an empty road. System 2 processing: controlled processing, much slower (rational thinking: park in a narrow space, compare three smartphones for overall value, focus on voice of one person in crowded noisy room, monitor appropriateness of behavior in new social situation. Schemas: accessibility: priming increases likelihood that schema will be activated again in the future, williams and bargh experiment. Hot coffee perceived target as more loving and friendly i. e. Iced coffee perceived target as less caring and less sociable. Results: ps told women was waitress recalled waitress consistent info more accurately than waitress inconsistent info. Men acted consistent with expectations in the experiment (nicer to prettier people) Women who had a friendlier chat ended up being much friendlier in return: rosenthal and jacobson.