PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Confirmation Bias, Visual Impairment, Thomas Theorem
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Psyc 6 notes: lecture 3 (1/12/16: social cognition. How people think about themselves and the social world, and how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions: two kinds of social cognition. Automatic thinking no conscious deliberation of thoughts, perceptions, assumptions: rapid, heuristic, intuitive. Controlled thinking effortful and deliberate thoughts about self and environment: carefully selecting the right course of action, slower, effortful, analytical, on auto pilot: low-effort thinking. We form impression of people quickly and effortlessly based on our past experiences: first impressions tend to have a confirmatory bias. We used automatic processes called schemas: automatic thinking with schemas, 4 functions of schemas. Schemas mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects. Influence what we notice, attend to, think about, remember i: help us interpret new info.
