PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pretty Smart, Perfectly Clear, Ibm Officevision

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

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20:07 we can control our thoughts if we understand how they control us. Stereotypes: good example of top down processes cognitive schema: an organized system of knowledge" that guides information processing. Professor- you have a bias of what it is to be a prof. Kari kawakami procedural re-learning had them do the opposite stereotypic reaction to their stimulus and saw that they were able to change their thought processes. Here"s what we know stereotypes can come to mind automatically or when youre motivated ex. to disparage the person when thinking at the group level, individual features, worth, ect. matter less. Ignoring base rates: the representativeness heuristic making decisions based on the extent to which info seems similar to a category you have in mind ex. doctors often ignore base rates of illnesses when making diagnoses . Ex. why were you rude to sally? because i was drunk, tired, worried, sick, stressed, your dog died last week,