PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Counterfactual Thinking

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 305
• Professor: Dane Tyler Burns

Document Summary

Automatic thinking thinking that is nonconcious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless. Accessibility the extent to which schemas and concepts are at the forefront of people"s minds and are therefore likely to be used when making judgements about the social world. Priming the process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait or concept (the donald study) Thoughts have to be accessible and applicable before they will act as primers. Self-fulfilling prophecy the case whereby people have an expectation about what another person is like, which influences how they act toward that person, which in turn, causes that person to behave consistently with their original expectations. Context of schemas is influenced by culture. Judgmental heuristics mental shortcuts people use to make judgements quickly and efficiently. We do not have firm schemas about our own traits. We often are harder on ourselves and rate ourselves lower on scales than recognizing our strengths.