POL 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Implicit Cognition, Social Cognition, Automaticity
5 Feb 2019
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Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding. Political cognition is any cognition related to understanding, interpreting, and. Our needs, goals, and movies influence how we interact with the (political world) How do people use political information to form judgments and make political. Cognition overview through thought, experience, and the senses interacting with politics. A note on terminology prone to error decisions, reliable. What cognitive constraints do we has humans have and how might they constrain our. Automatic cognition: happens all the time, without us knowing, everyday decisions, Controlled cognition: more effortful, slower, and aware that you are doing it, complex. Implicit/automatic cognition is when traces of past experience affect some performance. Mere exposure effects: primed with a picture of someone, later shown 2 pics and more. Subliminal attitude conditioning: flashing words really fast, may not even realize that. Implicit self-esteem effects: similarity-attraction, in-group bias, judgmental bias that.
