Behaviour regulation

Question 1

Feature-based approach of automatic

Answer 1

define automatic by 1 or more features

Question 2

Dual mode view

Answer 2

either define behaviour as automatic or nonautomatic

Question 3

Capacity view

Answer 3

attention limited and allocated out. practice means capacity-demanding activity can become automatic. automatic seen as not requiring much attention

Question 4

Perception-behaviour interface

Answer 4

x-environment y-unconscious automatic action
Mediation model: independent ->mediator (automatic)-> dependant

Question 5

Early evidence for automatic

Answer 5

lexical decision task- prime with words associated with hostility. then when asked to shock learner do longer shocks
X-may not be automatic as instructed to shock (Carver et al)

Question 6

Priming trait constructs

Answer 6

Scrambled sentence prime- rude or polite
go to other experimenter who talk to friend. Over half rude interrupt and approx. 15% of polite (Bargh, Chen, Burrows)

Question 7

Priming stereotype

Answer 7

Prime professor or secretary with thought list
asked trivia questions those in prof perform better

Sentence scramble prime of elderly. time how long to walk down hall way

x-replications not found effects
However not direct replications
Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg

Question 8

Priming effects of TV ads

Answer 8

children exposed to low nutrition and other produce. kids consumed 45% more

Adults exposed to healthy, unhealthy and other. Consumed more food of both types
Harris, Bargh & Brownell

Question 9

Boundary conditions

Answer 9

Situational cues in environment
Processing goals
Locus of self control
Familiarity with stereotype exemplars
Information presented

Question 10

Situational cues study

Answer 10

scrambled sentences prime for helpfulness
experimenter drops pen or leaky pens. Primed help more with normal but less for leaky
Macrae and Johnston

Question 11

Processing goal study

Answer 11

Primed for helpfulness. told either early or late for next experiment.
pens dropped in late experiment nullified prime effect
Macrae and Johnston

Question 12

Locus of self control study

Answer 12

either looking in mirror or not and primed on politicians
Write short essay on self. If in front of mirror wrote shorter essay then non mirror (incongruent with self)
Dijksterhuis & van Knippenberg

Question 13

Contact with stereotypes

Answer 13

Either have a clear or indifferent social contact (stereotype) with elders. (based on contact hours)
Word recognition task with elderly prime. surprise word recall - performed worse if more contact with elders
Dijksterhuis et al

Question 14

Info presented study

Answer 14

Assimilation - categories or contrast - exemplars
scrambled sentence elderly prime (categories vs exemplars)
elderly categories longer walk tie but elderly exemplars quicker then control