PSYC 309 Quiz: Unconscious Thinking.docx
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Clip from fast times at ridgemont high: sean penn as high highschool student, why are you always late?" i don"t know. ", actually legitimate response. Conscious thinking: conscious thought or deliberation, where attention is explicitly directed to the problem or issue at hand. Unconscious thinking: thought or deliberation in the absence of conscious attention directed at the problem, bubbling on the proverbial backburner". Some problems and decisions better handled by conscious thinking and others w/ unconscious thinking. This card problem done to appeal to conscious way of thinking. An insight" problem: move three circles from big triangle to make another triangle. Performance on insight problems was reduced when participants verbalized their strategies during problem solving: conscious reasoning slowed down problems solving. Clip from the office: michael trying to decide whether to break up with his girlfriend jan, makes a list of pros and cons, in the end he subconsciously knows he wants to break up with them.
