PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Thought Suppression, Social Cognition, Selective Perception
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The way people think about themselves and the social world. Thinking about social objects: social objects. Physical object that has the ability to engage in social cognition: automatic thinking. Nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary and effortless thinking: controlled thinking. Becoming aware of something through the senses: pre-attentive processes. Very quick processing of a complex scene. Grabs eye in less than 250 ms: gaze detection. Notice people that look like they are staring at us: processing/encoding. Focusing on things most relative to us: encoding. Taking information from environment and storing in our memory: attention. Mental structures that organize our knowledge about the social world. Encompasses our knowledge about many things other people, ourselves, social roles, etc: race & weapons shooter task . In experiment, people were shown pictures of people"s faces and then tools. Told to choose whether it was a weapon or a tool; had half a second to identify picture and press key.
