PSY 24000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Natural Selection, Performance-Enhancing Substance, The Automatic
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Duplex mind : the idea that the mind has two different processing systems (deliberate and automatic) Automatic system: the part of the mind outside of consciousness that performs simple operations. Handles endless mundane tasks, such as interpreting, organizing and categorizing all the information that comes in through your eyes and ears. Like rolling around in bed without waking up. Waking up to the sound of ur own name spoken more softly than almost any other world, which means your mind can tell the difference in the meanings of words even when asleep. Operates by impulses, u something something and then do it. Has ideas and emotions - simple versions of them. Even when ppl believe they are deciding something, often it can be shown that the automatic system has already decided. Decisions swayed by subliminal cues or other bits of information of which the person is unaware that have been processed automatically.
