PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Confirmation Bias, Hazel Rose Markus, Thomas Theorem
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How people think about themselves and the social world, and how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions. First make sure that you"re safe (because what if you"re wrong: automatic thinking. No conscious deliberation of thoughts, perceptions, assumptions. Our brain has evolved to prefer speed over accuracy: controlled thinking. Effortful and deliberate thoughts about self and environment. Carefully selecting the right course of action. Ilbert"s model: automatic behavior categorization automatic dispositional. Made automatic categorizations first, react to them, then later go back to correct the situation if we want. Amygdala sends more neural projections to the cortex than it receives back (faster pathway) Makes it easier for our feelings to hijack our thinking than for our thinking to rule our feelings. Automatic, effortless thinking helps us deal with the social world while balancing our cognitive.
