Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Facial Expression, Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic

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

Document Summary

Bargh"s (1994) four horsemen of automaticity : awareness, efficiency, intentionality, controllability, awareness. Of a stimulus that triggers a response. Of how a stimulus might be interpreted. Of a mental process (chain of mental events) In automatic thinking, people are typically unaware of things that guide their thoughts, feelings and behaviour: efficiency. Refers to how much a process depends on attentional resources. Automatic thoughts are heuristics are considered very. Think trusting your senses/intuition/gut efficient attributions, etc. quickly and with little effort: intentionality. Refers to the degree to which people are in control of initiating processes. Automatic thoughts, feelings and behaviour are triggered unintentionally: controllability. Refers to the degree to which people are in control of stifling or stopping processes. When people lack motivation or ability, certain thoughts, Note: intentionality and controllability both have to do with feelings and behaviour are more likely to occur uncontrollably how much people are in control of their thoughts, feelings and behaviour.