PSY 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Availability Heuristic, Thought Suppression, Stereotype
24 Oct 2016
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Explicit: thoughts, memories, anything that you are consciously aware of. Thinking about what you have to do that day. Implicit: thoughts, memories, mental events, dreams, anything that you are not consciously aware of (anything automatic, thought wise) Defined features model: specific subject trying to match. Prototype-matching model: average subject to compare to. Mental grouping of objects, ideas, or events sharing common properties. We naturally form categories about people based on social concepts. Schema therapy: change early learned schemas (cid:862)(cid:373)istrust s(cid:272)he(cid:373)a(cid:863), (cid:862)atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) get s(cid:272)he(cid:373)a(cid:863) A simple well-structures sequence of events usually in a specific order associated with a highly familiar activity/event: a prototype of a series of events that share some similarities. Me(cid:374)tal (cid:862)pa(cid:272)kages(cid:863) of things we are familiar with: situations, behaviors. Allow us to predict in a new situation: restaurant script, classroom script, family dinner script. Beliefs about the personalities, abilities, and motives of outgroup members: typically learned from others, maintained through regular social action, type of schema.
