PSYC 2310 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 Summary

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

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Automatic thinking a type of decision-making process that occurs at an unconscious or automatic level and is entirely effortless and unintentional. Heuristics mental shortcuts that are often used to form judgements and make decisions. Controlled or effortful thinking thinking that is effortful, conscious, and intentional. Social cognition how people think about the social world, and in particular how people select, interpret, and use information to make judgements about the world. Intuition a decision-making shortcut in which we rely on our instinct instead of relying on more objective information. Availability heuristic a mental shortcut in which people make a judgement based on how easily they can bring something to mind (think of more words that start with k, compared to third letter k, easier to recall. Schemas mental structures that organize our knowledge about the world and influence how we interpret people a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)e(cid:374)ts (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e (cid:373)ade fro(cid:373) past e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es, re(cid:272)e(cid:374)t e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es are stro(cid:374)ger.