SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Santa Barbara City College, Bay Window, Racial Profiling
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Most of the time unconscious thinking is critical to navigating our way through the world. There is evidence that our unconscious minds can do better at some tasks than our conscious minds. Described each with 12 different attributes: apt. A: sizeable, bad neighbourhood, cheap, bay window, etc ***: apt. B: nice area, far from stores, expensive, subway, etc: apt. C: cheap, nice neighbours, ugly, small bedrooms, etc: apt d: unfriendly landlord, no fireplace, small kitchen, poor condition, etc , one apartment was more desirable and one less desirable than others. Example: dijksterhuis & van olden (2006) - poster study. Racial profiling - an official action toward people based on their race, ethnicity, or national origin instead of their behavior. Controlled thinking - a thinking that is conscious, intentional, voluntary and effortful. Thinking about what might have been: counterfactual reasoning. Counterfactual thinking - mentally changing some aspect of the past as a way of imagining what might have been.
