Automacity (sept.16)

Question 1

Mindelessness at the copier experiment

Answer 1

• interupt participants at the copier and ask to use it
• 5 sheets = 60%
• 20 sheets = 24%
  given placebo reason ‘because i need to use it’
• 5 sheets = 93%
• 20 sheets = 24%
  given real reason ‘because im in a rush’
• 5 sheets = 94%
  -20 sheets = 43%

Question 2

Mindlessness at the copier experimnet results

Answer 2

• 5 sheets didn’t matter the reason because they weren’t listening, still on automatic processing
• 20 sheets, the reason did matter because the larger favor interupted the automatic processing

Question 3

What are four components of automatic processing?

Answer 3

• efficient (making judgments while distracted)
• unintended (snap judgements of personality)
• difficult to control (prejudice)
• outside of awareness

Question 4

What are four components of controlled processing?

Answer 4

• effortful (focus)
• intentional (making a choice to)
• controllable (can stop or start at any time)
• aware

Question 5

Testing Subliminal Messaging

Answer 5

• show word (prime) (at objective and subjective thresh)
• show string of letters/mask (pallet cleanse)
• lexical decision task, decide if letters make up a word or not
  when lexical decision task is related to word they can identify it much quicker (at objectiven and subjective thresh)

Question 6

What is subjective threshold?

Answer 6

duration necessar for subject to be aware of seeing the stimulus (30-50 ms)

Question 7

What is objective threshold?

Answer 7

duration necessary for stimulus to have an effect (15 ms)

Question 8

Nisbett and Wilson Nightgown Experiment

Answer 8

• not about automacity, about how we don’t understand out mind
• pick 1/4 nightgowns (all identicle)
• made up all sorts of reasons about why they liked on or the other

Question 9

Lombardi, Higgins, and Bargh (persistent vs stubborn prime)

Answer 9

• scrambled sentence priming people with persistent or stubborn
• given ambiguous descriptions and asking to report an impression
• asked to recall scrambled primes
• PEOPLE WERE ONLY EFFECTED BY PRIMES WHEN THEY COULD NOT REMEMBER THEM

Question 10

Lombardi, Higgins, and Bargh prime conclusion

Answer 10

Awareness reduces the effect of a prime

Question 11

Schwarz and Clone (weather)

Answer 11

• people overall said they were more satisifed on a sunny day and less satisfied on a rainy day
• when the weather was mentioned before in the convo, the above statement did not hold true, and weather had no effect on overall satisfaction