PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Precognition, Confirmation Bias, Fundamental Attribution Error
28 Nov 2015
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We respond not to reality but to reality as we construe it. Unattended stimuli can subtly influence how we interpret and recall events. Our memory systems is a wed of associatins and priming is the way of awakening or activating centain associations. Priming experiments reveal how one thought, even without awareness can influence another thought or even an action. Often our thinking and acting are primed by events of which we are unaware. In a host of studies, priming effects surface when the stimuli are presented subliminally. Much of our social information processing is automatic. It is unintentional, out of sight and happens without our conscious awareness. Despite some startling and oft-confirmed baises and logical flaws in how we perceive and undertstand one another we"re mostly accurate. Our first impressions of one another are more often right then wrong the better we know people the more accurate we can read their minds and feelings.
