PSY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Belief Perseverance, Yield Sign, Traffic Collision

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 300
• Professor: William Huggon

Document Summary

Perception and memory limitations sensory input is influenced by expectation. Memory is subjective interpretations belief perseverance old information has more influence than new old info more deeply rooted. Heuristics are short-cuts: we substitute simple for more complex info usually when we"re are uncertain and can to cognitive biases, stereotypes. Cognitive biases are mental errors caused by heuristics. Trump says that muslims are terrorists and ignorant people who don"t have enough info may just fill the unknown with that assumption. It is surprisingly easy to distort and/or create memories. Memory is strongly influenced by our views, attitudes and beliefs at the time of recall. Psychologists can"t tell the difference between real and implanted memories. Actual memories tend to include more sensory details. Or encouraging remembering of misinformation reduces access to og info. Trying to make a story interesting, we can elaborate on everything and actual believe it happened.