2018-2019
Behaviour & Environment 3
Literature Summary
Made by Maha Abdallah
1
, 2018-2019
Week 1 4
Implicit Social Cognition and Mental Representation 4
Reflective and Impulsive Determinants of Social Behaviour 10
Situated Inferences and the What, Who, and Where of Priming
21
Week 2 25
The MODE Model: Attitude-Behaviour Processes as a Function
of Motivation and Opportunity 25
Attitudes and Evaluations: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience
Perspective 31
The Associative-Propositional Duality in the Representation,
Formation, and Expression of Attitudes 35
Week 3 41
The Unconscious Will: How the Pursuit of Goals Operates
Outside of Conscious Awareness 41
Implementation Intentions 43
Week 4 49
Stereotyping and Evaluation in Implicit Race Bias: Evidence for
Independent Constructs and Unique Effects on Behaviour 49
Implicit and Explicit Prejudice and Interracial Interaction 51
Social Cognition: Thinking Categorically about Others 53
Week 5 59
Principles of Operant Conditioning 59
Distinct Neural Responses to Conscious versus Unconscious
Monetary Reward Cues 66
Week 6 67
The Strength Model of Self-Control 67
Impulse and Self-Self-Control From a Dual-Systems Perspective
69
What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the
Resource Model of Self-Control 75
Week 7 80
2
, 2018-2019
Faces Are Central to Social Cognition 80
3
, 2018-2019
Week 1
Implicit Social Cognition and Mental
Representation
What Is a Mental Representations?
• Although a lot of definitions exist for the term mental representations,
here they will be defined as: any mental content or operation that
stands for something else in the world.
What Is Implicit?
• Implicitness is characterized by the so-called four horseman of
automaticity. Indeed, implicit representations 1) lack awareness, 2) are
efficient, 3) do not require intent, and 4) escape control.
• Some theories consider implicitness or explicitness to be features of the
representation itself. Others emphasize that a given representation can
be used either explicitly or implicitly.
• A related issue that is discussed in the theories following is whether a
representation is always implicit, as opposed to momentarily implicit.
Models of Mental Representation
Associative Network Models:
• According to these models, mental representations are built from
discrete, interconnected nodes. These nodes stand for concepts, and
the links between nodes stand for relationships.
4
Behaviour & Environment 3
Literature Summary
Made by Maha Abdallah
1
, 2018-2019
Week 1 4
Implicit Social Cognition and Mental Representation 4
Reflective and Impulsive Determinants of Social Behaviour 10
Situated Inferences and the What, Who, and Where of Priming
21
Week 2 25
The MODE Model: Attitude-Behaviour Processes as a Function
of Motivation and Opportunity 25
Attitudes and Evaluations: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience
Perspective 31
The Associative-Propositional Duality in the Representation,
Formation, and Expression of Attitudes 35
Week 3 41
The Unconscious Will: How the Pursuit of Goals Operates
Outside of Conscious Awareness 41
Implementation Intentions 43
Week 4 49
Stereotyping and Evaluation in Implicit Race Bias: Evidence for
Independent Constructs and Unique Effects on Behaviour 49
Implicit and Explicit Prejudice and Interracial Interaction 51
Social Cognition: Thinking Categorically about Others 53
Week 5 59
Principles of Operant Conditioning 59
Distinct Neural Responses to Conscious versus Unconscious
Monetary Reward Cues 66
Week 6 67
The Strength Model of Self-Control 67
Impulse and Self-Self-Control From a Dual-Systems Perspective
69
What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the
Resource Model of Self-Control 75
Week 7 80
2
, 2018-2019
Faces Are Central to Social Cognition 80
3
, 2018-2019
Week 1
Implicit Social Cognition and Mental
Representation
What Is a Mental Representations?
• Although a lot of definitions exist for the term mental representations,
here they will be defined as: any mental content or operation that
stands for something else in the world.
What Is Implicit?
• Implicitness is characterized by the so-called four horseman of
automaticity. Indeed, implicit representations 1) lack awareness, 2) are
efficient, 3) do not require intent, and 4) escape control.
• Some theories consider implicitness or explicitness to be features of the
representation itself. Others emphasize that a given representation can
be used either explicitly or implicitly.
• A related issue that is discussed in the theories following is whether a
representation is always implicit, as opposed to momentarily implicit.
Models of Mental Representation
Associative Network Models:
• According to these models, mental representations are built from
discrete, interconnected nodes. These nodes stand for concepts, and
the links between nodes stand for relationships.
4
