PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Pluralistic Ignorance, Confirmation Bias, Representativeness Heuristic
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Pluralistic ignorance: when people act in ways that conflict with their private beliefs due to concern for social consequences. Self-fulfilling prophecy: our expectations lead us to believe in ways that elicit the very behavior we expect from others. Ideological distortions: un-intentiallty exaggerating the impact of information told by leaving out potential details that could possibly reduce the impact of the message being conveyed. See it all the time in the news and media. Primacy effect: information first presented exerts the most influence. Recency effect: information presented last also has the most impact. Framing effect: the way information is presented (including order of presentation) can frame the way it is processed and understood. Spin framing- varies the content (as well as the order) of what is presented. Temporal framing: we think about actions and events within a particular time perspective. Construal level theory: the temporal perspective from which people view events has important and predictable implications for how they interpret them.
