PSYC 4P72 Midterm: PSYC 4P72 Midterm Review

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Psyc 4p72 - psychology of violent predators midterm review. Worth 20% of final grade: we discovered what science has to say about gut hunches. Be sure to discuss intuitive judgment can be helpful in some ways and harmful in others. intuition: gut hunch or feeling, intuitive responses reached with little apparent effort & typically without conscious awareness. Allows us to think without awareness, therefore allocation attention to other tasks. Autopilot: allows us to concentrate on other things, like having discussion or thinking about future action. Implicit memory: knowing without knowing how you know, related to procedural memory. Occurs automatically, outside of conscious awareness and is extremely ef cient. Revising life histories; attitudes, pain memories, emotional memories for positive events can change or distort person"s experience. Moods and intuitions - thought to be effected by our moods. By stander effect: presence of others in uence our actions, help people less often if in the presence of other people.