Psychology 2720A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Cognition, Unconscious Mind, Lightning
19 Oct 2018
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Chapter 3 + lecture 2 social cognition: social psych + cognitive psych how our thought processes play a role in social phenomenon how we organize our world. Social cognition: how people think about themselves and the social world how they select, interpret, remember and use social info to make judgements we are able to make complex judgements about people at lightning speed. 2. quick and automatic = automatic thinking pause and think about ourselves and our environment = controlled thinking often the automatic and controlled mode of social cognition work well together. Low-e ort/automatic thinking automatic thinking: is thought that it is generally non conscious, unintentional, involuntary and e ortless helps us understand new situations by relating them to our prior experiences examples of this type of thinking: habits emotional responses impulses/drives values. Fxn of schemas useful for helping us organize and make sense of the world and to ll in the gaps in our knowledge.
