PSYC 309 Lecture 10: lecture 10
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To understand the meta-cognition, and he kinds of cues we use to monitor and control our thinking and reasoning. Going beyond memory retrieval and how it feels. Generate examples of being assertive or unassertive. And then rate how assertive you are on a 7-point scale. What they found: the amount of examples people have to generate impacted their sense of assertiveness. The fact that you can"t generate enough examples for 12 assertiveness/unassertiveness makes you think you are the opposite. Fluency acts as heuristic cue: fluency, ease/difficulty of recalling experience. When asked to generate unassertive examples: easy fluent (2) i must not be assertive , difficult disfluent (8) i must be assertive . Meta cognitive experience affecting what you"re thinking about. Generate 6 positive/negative thoughts about the diet. Was the task easy or hard: depends on your thoughts; aligns with what you think. If it"s hard, must be because you think the opposite.
