PSYC 2245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fundamental Attribution Error, Fritz Haber, Internal Set
1 Sep 2016
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Controlled thinking is: conscious, intentional, voluntary, effortful. Automatic thinking is: non-conscious, unintentional, involuntary, effortless. Mental structures we use to organize knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects that influence the information people notice, think about and remember: ex. Think of the different rooms in a house. Garage/kitchen/bathroom: you are trying to cut a piece of paper. You would find a knife in the kitchen, sheers in the garage etc. What happens when you cannot form schemas: korsakoff syndrome: Have a very hard time organizing their lives, cannot identify objects, impaired automatic thinking. A method of solving a problem for which no formula exists, based on informal methods or experience, and employing a form of trial and error iteration. When you are trying to judge an ambiguous scenario, you will choose the most similar and easiest example in your head. We all have a fundamental fascination with explaining other people"s behaviour .
