PSYCH 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Connectionism, Psych
22 Aug 2016
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Spotlight effect- belief that others are paying more attention to one"s appearance and behavior than who they really are. Illusions of transparency- illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others. We have a independent self and a collective self. Schema- mental templates by which we organize our worlds. Web of associations we construct, connections between concepts and ideas. Ex: if someone says the word office , you think of a desk or a chair: in these connectionist theories, the nodes in the networks are constructs and their connections are represented by links. The more often concepts are activated together, the stronger the excitatory link. The less frequently two concepts are activated together, the stronger the inhibitory or deactivating links. Ex: bowl --- guitar: self- schema- beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information, positive self- images of what we dream or dread becoming in the future.
