Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Counterfactual Conditional, Planning Fallacy, Automaticity
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Awareness can refer to a few different things: Awareness of how a stimulus might be interpreted. Awareness of potential influences on their subjective states. In automatic thinking people are typically unaware of things that guide their thoughts, feelings, and behaviour. Efficiency refers to how much a process depends on attentional resources. Automatic thoughts and heuristics are considered very efficient. People tend to trust categorizations, self-judgments, attributions, etc. that are made efficiently. Intentionality intentionality refers to the degree to which people are in control of initiating processes. Sometimes automatic thoughts, feelings, and behaviour are triggered unintentionally. Intentionality and controllability both have to do with how much people are in control of their thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Controllability refers to the degree to which people are in control of stifling or stopping processes. When people lack motivation or ability, certain thoughts, feelings, and behavior are more likely to occur uncontrollably. Schemas: mental structures that organize our knowledge about the social world.