PSY325H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Attribution Bias, Physical Attractiveness, Nrs Social Grade
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Selective memory: self-enhancement by selectively remembering their strengths rather than weaknesses, it includes biases in the processing of information at either encoding, retrieval or retention. Usually for desirable personality traits, enjoyable interpersonal relationships or even health improving habits. Affect associated with unpleasant memories fades faster than affect associated with pleasant memories. Interpretation of what counts as a virtue or talent: when you succeed at something you are more likely to interpret it as a good thing and talented. This permits self-enhancement to occur in two ways: Discounting: in the case of failure, self-handicapping can protect self-esteem by attributing failure to obstacles that one has erected - so you are saying that you. Tuesday, may 19, 2015 got bad mark not because of yourself, but because you had so much going on and you did not have enough time to study.
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