PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Availability Heuristic, A Marriage Proposal, Thought Suppression
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People typically size up new situations very quickly. They figure out who is there, what is happening, and what might happen next. You reach conclusions without even being aware that you are doing so ex. Like not confusing your university lecture for a birthday party. We form impressions of people quickly and effortlessly and navigate new roads without much conscious analysis of what we are doing. We do these things by engaging in an automatic analysis of our environments, based on our past experiences and knowledge of the world. Automatic thinking is thought that is nonconcious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless. People as everyday theorists: automatic thinking with schemas. People use schemas, which are mental structures that organize knowledge about the social world. Influence the information we notice, think about and remember. Male faster at saying rugged, impatient rather then artistic or impolite. We fill in the blanks with schema-consistent information: ex. You tell a someone that micheal is an salesperson.
