SOCI 2150 Study Guide - Harold Kelley, Counterfactual Thinking, John Bargh
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One kind is quick and automatic; other times we pause and think about ourselves and the environment controlled thinking (more effortful and deliberate). On automatic pilot: low effort thinking: people typically size up a new situation very quickly. Automatic thinking is thinking that is unconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless. People as everyday theorists- automatic thinking with schemas: automatic thinking helps us understand new situations by relating them to our prior experiences. There is evidence that information relevant to a particular schema is processed more quickly than information unrelated to it. Students in quebec were asked to rate the characteristics of various groups. Stereotypes about race and weapons: there was a study done where people were tested to see if their stereotypes about. African americans can influence their perception of whether a person is holding a weapon. Non-black college students saw pairs of pictures in rapid successions on a computer screen.
