PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Seat Belt, Opportunity Cost, Dispositional Attribution

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH253
• Professor: Alexander Tran

Document Summary

Unattended stimuli can subtly influence how we interpret events. Our memory system is a web of associations, and priming is the awakening or activating of certain associations. Priming experiments reveal how one thought, even without awareness, can influence another thought, or even an action. Priming experiments can have counterparts in real life situations: For example, watching a scary movie can prime your thinking to assume the sound of a furnace is an intruder. Much of our social information processing is automatic. Even physical sensations prime our social judgements thanks to embodies cognition. Embodied cognition: the mutual influence of bodily sensations on cognitive preferences and social judgments. The (cid:862)kule(cid:272)ho(cid:448) effe(cid:272)t(cid:863) (cid:449)he(cid:374) fil(cid:373)(cid:373)akers (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol people"s per(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) of e(cid:373)otio(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) manipulating the setting in which they see a face. Whe(cid:374) a(cid:374) e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)ter or a therapist (cid:373)a(cid:374)ipulates people"s presu(cid:373)ptio(cid:374)s a(cid:271)out their past, a sizable fraction will construct false memories. Whe(cid:374) a(cid:374) e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)ter (cid:373)a(cid:374)ipulates people"s presu(cid:373)ptio(cid:374)s a(cid:271)out their past, a sizable fraction constructs false memories.