PS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Social Cognition, Automaticity, Executive Functions
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Ps260 lecture 16: important framework across most domains of psychology o schneider & schiffrin (1977) 21 executive control and social cognition: automatic versus controlled processes, limited capacity, require attention, can be used flexibly in changing, controlled processes: circumstances. It can free up our limited attentional capacity for other things: highly skilled behaviour often relies on automaticity, for example, choking in sports might be due to excessive conscious monitoring (beilock & carr, 2001): control, other times we need to overcome automatic impulses for more flexible, context- appropriate behaviour. o self-control is important, humans need self-control to live cooperatively and healthily. Failures -> obesity, addiction, poor financial decisions, sexual infidelity, etc. Stroop (e. g. red, green, blue: action inhibition (e. g. go/no-go, working memory tasks (e. g. keep in mind: 45132 , task switching (e. g. if in red, decide if number is odd/even, if in green, decide if number is <10 or >10).
