PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Victim Blaming, Pluralistic Ignorance, Telemarketing
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Psy220 lecture 3 social perception & beliefs. Major theme: how we make errors in our judgments of the social world. Operating simultaneously: controlled operating process attempts to distract you about that unwanted thought that is about to intrude you unconscious thoughts, both processes have to be operating together in this case! How do they work together: imagine parents walking in the mall with their child. Textbook what the textbook has to say about how we preceive. Of course, one pile maybe sufficient, depending on how much there is to do. If you have to go somewhere else due to lack of facilities, that is the next step; otherwise you are pretty well set. Bottom-up: data driven; when you form your conclusions based upon the stimuli you have encountered. Starting with the words and using the words to draw conclusions. Top-down: theory driven; when you take existing information to make sense of new information, e. g. , washing clothes (up ahead)
