Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fallacy, Representativeness Heuristic, Stereotype

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Erin Heerey

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2 types of thinking: low effort thinking, automatic thinking, fast/ automatic, emotional, impulses/drivers, habits, beliefs, high-effort thinking, controlled thinking, slow/ effortful, logical, reflection, planning, problem solving. Auto-pilot: low effort thinking: automatic thinking, thinking that is unconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless, ex. Recognizing a common object (sunglasses) or situation (birthday party: we rely on schemas for this information. 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 determine by lived experience (culture, difficult to change (see self-fulfilling prophecies, ex. Schemas: schema-relevant information is processed more quickly than schema-irrelevant information, if given a label, people will fill in the blanks with schema consistent information (e. g. , kunda et al. , 1997) Functions of schemas: help us organize, and make sense of our world, and to fit in the gaps of our knowledge, helps us to have continuity and to relate new experiences to our past.