Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Freudian Slip, Windex, Automaticity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

Low-effort thinking: automatic thinking: fast/automatic, habits, emotional. Impulses/drives: values, high-effort thinking: controlled thinking, slow/effortful, logical, reflection, planning, problem solving. Intentionality refers to the degree to which people are in control of initiating processes: automatic thoughts, feelings, and behaviour are triggered unintentionally. Freudian slip: unintentionally but automatic: controllability, refers to degree to which people are in control of stifling or stopping processes, when people lack motivation or ability, certain thoughts, feelings, and behaviour are more likely to occur uncontrollably. Intentionality and controllability both have to do with how much people are in control of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviour. Schemas: mental structure that organize our knowledge about the social world. Influence what we notice, think about, and remember: content is determined by lived experience (culture, difficult to change (see self-fulfilling prophecies) Why do schemas exist: help people organize and make sense of the world.