PSYC 308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Intrusive Thought, Thought Suppression, Emor
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Social cognition: how we think about the social world: two kinds of social cognition, automatic; quickly and effortlessly identifying something, controlled thinking; having to pause and think about something. On automatic pilot: low-effort thinking: tend to form impressions of people, places, and things effortlessly and quickly without having to consciously analyze them, automatic thinking: thought that is generally nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless. Constantly active schemas that are ready to use to interpret ambiguous situations. A lot of experience with something can lead you to describe or attribute that experience to ambiguous situations (ex: prejudice: related to a current goal. Ex: if you"re studying for a test on mental illness, you might attribute someone"s bizarre behaviour to that instead of something like alcoholism: recent experiences. Schema happens to be primed by something you"ve been thinking about or something that happened before an event: priming: the process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait, or concept.