PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jackhammer, Psych, Intentionality
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Refers to the degree to which people are in control of initiating processes. Automatic thoughts, feelings, and behaviour, are triggered unintentionally. Refers to the degree to which people are in control of sti ing or stopping processes. When people lack motivation or ability, certain, thoughts, feelings, and behaviour are more likely to occur uncontrollably. But there"re also things like uncontrollable laughter. Note: intentionality and controllability both have to do with how much people are in control of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Schemas: mental structures that organize our knowledge about the social world: in uence what we notice, think about, and remember. Helps people organize and make sense of the world ( ll gaps in knowledge) Useful when people encounter confusing or ambiguous information (help people gure out what"s going on) Stereotypes: schemas applied to members of a social group (e. g. gender, race) are called stereotypes.
