Psychology 2720A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dual Process Theory, Social Cognition, Reductionism

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The study of the cognitive underpinnings of social thought and behaviour. Understanding how people"s social skills and everyday power of reasoning work, largely by looking at when people make mistakes. Social psychologists have uncovered many irrational, illogical and erroneous habits of thought. Features to define whether thinking is more automatic or controlled: Awareness: people are often unaware of stimuli that influence them, available schemas influence awareness less awareness, more automatic process. Intention: some processes happen without us intending to start them, the less intentional, the more automatic the process is. Controllability: some psychological processes are difficult for people to prevent, less controlled processes are more automatic. Efficiency: an automatic process does not require conscious attention, where a controlled process does. Paragraph about the process and outcomes/possibilities that can arise about doing laundry but does not talk about laundry. Only the group that was primed with laundry understood the text.

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