Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cognitive Load, Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Mirror Neuron

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

Document Summary

Lecture 3: social cognition and social perception: low-effort (automatic) thinking, high-effort (controlled) thinking, social perception, nonverbal communication. Two kinds of thinking (1) low-effort thinking (automatic thinking: fast, habits, emotional. Impulses / drives: values (2) high-effort thinking (controlled thinking, slow / effortful logical, reflection, planning, problem solving. Automatic vs controlled thinking: ba(cid:396)gh"s (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, awareness, efficiency. How does automatic thinking work: schemas: mental structures that organize our knowledge about the social world. Influence what we notice, think about, and remember: content is determined by lived experience (culture, difficult to change (see self-fulfilling prophecies) Why do schemas exist: help people organize and make sense of the world, fills gaps in knowledge, useful when people encounter brief, confusing, or ambiguous information, help people figure out what is going on. Which schemas are applied: (cid:272)he(cid:373)as (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e (cid:862)a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ated(cid:863) to (cid:271)e applied (1) chronic accessibility (2) current goals / motivations (3) recent experiences, people are not always aware that they have been primed.