PSYCH 2C03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Cognitive Load, Counterfactual Thinking, Richard E. Nisbett
8 Dec 2015
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Chapter three: social cognition how we think about the. Automatic thinking helps us understand new situations by relating them to our prior experiences. Shery is like sleeps a lot and likes to say yo man! ), social roles (e. g. , how mothers are supposed to behave), or how people are supposed to act in specific situations (at a party or restaurant) Cultural determinants of schemas: although everyone uses schemas to understand the world, the content of our schemas is influenced by our culture. Some schemas are chronically accessible because of past experience these schemas are constantly active and ready to use to interpret ambiguous situations. Schemas can become accessible because they are related because it occurs quickly, unintentionally, and unconsciously. Thus, this causes shery to behave consistently with our 15-hour sleep schedule expectation: the self-fulfilling prophecy is an example of automatic thinking.
