PSYCH 2C03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Comparison Theory, Availability Heuristic, Counterfactual Thinking
14 Dec 2014
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Automatic thinking: thinking that is nonconcious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless. 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 stereotypes: schemas about a race or gender. Well then i won"t say hello either: you see the target"s behaviour as proof that your expectation was right, you don"t realize the role you played in causing the target"s response (eg: i knew i was right. Mental shortcuts people use to make judgments quickly and efficiently. Representativeness heuristic: a mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case eg: lyne is similar to my conception of a typical quebecker- she must be from. Quebec go to school in alberta, there are many people in alberta who speak. French and dress nice and enjoy french food)
