Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Automaticity, Intentionality, Controllability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

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Tied to fast, automatic, emotional, habits, impulses, drives, beliefs. These two categorization are actually not this clear cut. We do not understand mental process enough to be able to distinguish them and experts are not definitive about their definitions/boundaries. They are useful generalization but they are not concrete definitive. B(cid:396)agh(cid:859)s (cid:894)1994(cid:895) (cid:862)fou(cid:396) ho(cid:396)se(cid:373)e(cid:374) of auto(cid:373)ati(cid:272)it(cid:455)(cid:863) listed fou(cid:396) (cid:272)(cid:396)ite(cid:396)ia to de(cid:272)ide (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h ki(cid:374)d of thinking we are employing: awareness. 4. controlabiliy: awareness can refer to a few different things: Awareness of a stimulus that triggers a response. Awareness of how a stimulus might be interpreted. Awareness of potential influences on subject states. Awareness of a mental process (a chain of mental events) In automatic thinking people are typically unaware of things that guide their thoughts, feelings and behavior: efficiency refers to how much a process depends on attentional resources. Automatic thoughts and heuristics are considered vey efficient. People tend to trust categorizations, self-judgment, attributions etc quick with little effort.