PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Availability Heuristic, Intelligence Quotient, Base Rate
1 Feb 2016
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Useul when we encounter information that is confusing or. Helps us understand new situations by relating them to our. Automatic thinking: thought that is generally nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless prior experiences. Schemas: mental structures that organize our knowledge about the social world. These mental structures influence the information we notice, think about, and remember. Priming: the process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait, or concept, making it more likely that you will use this information to interpret a new event. It is a good example of automatic thinking because it occurs quickly, unintentionally, and unconsciously. When judging others, people are usually not aware that they are applying concepts or schemas that they just happen to be thinking about earlier. Self-fulfilling prophecy: people can inadvertently make their own schemas come true by the way they treat expectation about what another person is like that influences how we act toward that person,
