BIOL130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Collectivism, Dispositional Attribution, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL130
• Professor: Heidi Engelhardt

Document Summary

Social-cognitive researchers study the cognitions that people have about social situations, and how situations influence cognitive processes. One of the central ideas in social-cognitive psychology is the idea that there are two major types of processes in our consciousness: explicit processes and implicit processes. Explicit processes: (cid:272)orrespo(cid:374)d roughl(cid:455) to (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:863) thought, are deli(cid:271)erate, effortful, relatively slow, and generally under our intentional control. : e(cid:454)pli(cid:272)it le(cid:448)el of (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess is our su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e i(cid:374)(cid:374)er a(cid:449)are(cid:374)ess, our (cid:862)(cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:863) Implicit processes: (cid:272)o(cid:373)prise our (cid:862)u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:863) thought, the(cid:455) are i(cid:374)tuiti(cid:448)e, auto(cid:373)ati(cid:272), effortless, very fast, and operate largely outside of our intentional control. : implicit level of consciousness is the larger set of patterns that govern how our (cid:373)i(cid:374)d ge(cid:374)erall(cid:455) fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, all the (cid:862)lo(cid:449)er-le(cid:448)el(cid:863) pro(cid:272)esses that (cid:272)o(cid:373)prise the vast bulk of what our brains actually do. : as we consciously think about things and make decisions, we are already being influenced and guided by our implicit processes, without being aware of this.