Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Mirror Neuron, Hard Wired

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

Document Summary

He showed the toga question because it shows automatic thinking. Bargh"s (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:891)4 (cid:498)four horsemen of automaticity: awareness. Of; how a stimulus triggers a response, might be interpreted, influences on a subjective state, of a mental process. In automatic thinking people are typically unaware of things that guide their thoughts: efficiency. Refers to how much a process depends on attentional resources. Autonomic thoughts and heuristics are considered very efficient. People tend to trust categorizations, self judgements, attributions. Intentionality refers to the degree to which people are in control of intiating processes. Automatic thoughts, feelings, and behaviour are triggered unintentionally (freudian slips: controllability. Controllability refers to the degree to which people are in control of stifling or stopping process. When people lack motivation or ability, certain thoughts, feelings, and beh"r are more likely to occur uncontrollably. Think about this section as two different bodies of research that overlap and share similarities as well as differences.