PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Mental Disorder, Thought Suppression, Availability Heuristic
6 Feb 2018
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Automatic thinking is thought that is nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless. People as everyday theorists: automatic thinking with schemas. Automatic thinking helps us understand new situations by relating them to our prior experiences. People use schemas which are mental structures that organize our knowledge about the social world. Schemas are very general and encompass out knowledge about other people, ourselves, social roles, and specific events. It contains our basic knowledge and impressions that we use to organize what we know about the social world. Influence the way we process information (info relevant to a schema is processed more quickly then info unrelated) When applied to a social group (one gender or race), schemas are referred to as stereotypes people. Stereotypes can be applied rapidly and automatically when we encounter other (cid:498)shooter bias(cid:499) people made few errors when a black person was in fact holding a.
