PSYC 288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shooting Of Amadou Diallo, Keith Payne, Psych
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Process in which people make sense of other people, themselves and social situations. 2 modes: automatic thinking: nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, effortless breathing, walking, picking up objects, getting dressed, etc, controlled thinking: conscious, intentional, voluntary, effortful talking, note taking, studying, cooking, etc. Class activity about james how we think about james depends on what words were given to us to explain and his activities. Automatic: mental structure used to organize knowledge around themes: influence what we notice, think about, and remember. Many schemas could be applied to each situation. Police were in the neighborhood looking for a rapist. Police mistook diallo as the rapist and shot him 41 times . Pictures of black people and white people. Told to ignore the face of the person in the picture. Accessibility: extent to which a schema is at the forefront of our minds. Priming: recent experiences increase accessibility of schema, trait, concept: *james (ex. ) desirable/undesirable behavior, the shooters" bias of color,
