Psychology 2720A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Windex, Tinder, Counterfactual Conditional

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

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Scientific study of how the social environment impacts our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Lecture 2 types of thinking: low-effort (automatic) thinking, schemas, heuristics, high effort (controlled) thinking. Ie. (cid:374)egati(cid:448)e thoughts (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:455)ou"ll (cid:374)e(cid:448)er (cid:271)e good e(cid:374)ough(cid:895: controllability, how in control we are in regard to stopping processes, when we 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. Why do schemas exist: help us organize and make sense of the world fills gaps in knowledge, useful when we encounter brief, confusing, or ambiguous information help us figure out (cid:449)hat"s goi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) 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, chronic accessibility, current goals/motivations, certain situations activate certain schemas. Choosing a partner for a project vs. choosing a date on tinder: recent experiences (cid:449)e"re (cid:374)ot al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s a(cid:449)are that (cid:449)e"ve been primed.