PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Illusory Correlation, Three Steps, Fundamental Attribution Error
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How we think about our social world. How we make judgments about the social world. How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions. Quick, effortless, non-conscious, unintentional, involuntary: controlled thinking. One purpose is to check automatic thinking, i. e. when unusual events occur. The attempt to avoid thinking about something a person would prefer to forget: tired or preoccupied. Thought suppression consists of 2 processes: automatic: monitoring process. Searches for evidence that the unwanted thought is going to intrude on consciousness (i. e. you are about to think about it: controlled: operating process. Attempts to distract you by finding something else to think about. They act in tandem: first the automatic, then the controlled. But, when you are tired or preoccupied, you cannot engage in the controlled part: the automatic process runs wild.