Psychology 2720A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Embodied Cognition, Social Cognition, Barometer

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: corey isaacs

Document Summary

Automatic thinking: thinking that is non conscious, unintentional, involuntary and effortless. People as everyday theorists: automatic thinking with schemas. Automatic thinking helps us understand new situations by relating them to our prior experiences. Schemes: mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about the social world themselves and that in uence the information people notice, think about and remember. Our schemas contain our basic knowledge and impressions that we use to organize what we know about the social world and interpret new situations. Schemas are typically very useful for helping us organize and make sense of the world and to. It is important to us to have continuity and to relate new experiences to our past schemas that people who lose this ability invent schemas where none exist. We also tend to ll in the blanks with schema consistent information.