write conscious and unconscious social cognitive process you engaged in the last 24 hours

Write a brief description of one example of a conscious and one example of an unconscious social cognitive process you engaged in within the last 24 hours. Then, explain one possible reason why each of the dual modes of processing occurred. Finally, explain one way each of the modes of processing impacted you. Be specific and use the current literature to support your response.

Readings

• Course Introduction (located on the left navigation bar)
• Course Text: Fiske, S. T., Gilbert, D. T., & Lindzey, G. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook of social psychology (5th ed., Vol. 1). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
• • Chapter 7, “Automaticity and the Unconscious”

• Article: Bargh, J. A., & Ferguson, M. J. (2000). Beyond behaviorism: On the automaticity of higher mental processes. Psychological Bulletin, 126(6), 925-945. Retrieved from the Walden Library using the PsycINFO database.
• Book Excerpt: Wegner, D. M., & Bargh, J. A. (1998). Control and automaticity in social life . In D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of social psychology (4th ed., Vol. 1, pp. 446–496). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  Handbook of Social Psychology by Gilbert, T. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press via the Copyright Clearance Center.

Websites

• Social Psychology Network. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.socialpsychology.org
  

Optional Resources

• Article: Addington, J., Girard, T. A., Christensen, B. K., & Addington, D. (2010). Social cognition mediates illness-related and cognitive influences on social function in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 35(1), 49-54.
• Article: Brebner, J. L., Martin, D., & Macrae, C. N. (2009). Dude looks like a lady: Exploring the malleability of person categorization. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39(6), 1109–1119.
• Article: Payne, B. K. (2005). Conceptualizing control in social cognition: How executive functioning modulates the expression of automatic stereotyping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(4), 488-503.