CIVTECH 3CS3 Chapter Notes -How We Think, Representativeness Heuristic, Base Rate
19 Apr 2013
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Chapter 3: social cognition: how we think about the social. On automatic pilot: low-effort thinking: automatic thinking is thought that is nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless. experiences. world. Participants faster when rating stereotypical characteristics of each group than when ratings its nonstereotypical characteristics: kunda, sinclair, griffin (1997), given a label, we fill in blanks w/ all kinds of schema-consistent information. The function of schemas: why do we have them: schemas typically very useful for helping us organize and make sense of world and to fill in gaps of our knowledge, korsakov"s syndrome difficulty forming schemas. 1989): schemas accessible for three reasons, some schemas chronically accessible due to past experience meaning schemas are constantly active and ready to use to interpret ambiguous situations (chen & anderson, 1999; dijksterhius & van knippengerg, 2002: after learning that feedback was false, these thoughts still fresh in people"s minds, making them think they were particularly good or poor at task.
