Psychology 2720A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Bertram Forer, Asian Americans, Speedstep

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

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People typically size up a new situation very quickly, and often these quick conclusions are correct. We engage in automatic analysis of environments, based on our past experiences and knowledge of the world, called automatic thinking. People as everyday theorists: automatic thinking and schemas. Automatic thinking helps us understand new situations by relating them to our prior experiences. The function of schemas: why do we have them: people (cid:449)ith korsako(cid:448)"s syndrome have difficulty forming new schemas, unsettling, can be terrifying, so people go to great lengths to impose meanings on their experience. It is important to have continuity and to relate new experiences to our past schemas: people who lose this ability i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)t (cid:374)e(cid:449) s(cid:272)he(cid:373)as (cid:449)here the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)ist, we also te(cid:374)d to (cid:862)fill in the blanks: with schema-consistent information. Study: researchers had participants read about john the lawyer, versus john the construction worker and were asked to generate examples of aggressive behaviour that.