PSY325H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mind-Wandering, Pantyhose, Impact Bias
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Barriers to self-knowledge: informational and motivation barriers, info: The quality of info, visual perspective for eg you may not know you are expressing a cold face. Feedback- they care about their friend so no one tells her to not hurt her. Rock climbing- you do not know how bad you are thus people who are worse performers are bad at telling how proficient they are. Unconscious- our preferences; just don"t have access to that info: motivation. Mnemic neglect- you do not process in depth. Confirmation bias- take it as a positive. Self-serving definitions- the more broad the trait like honesty- you try the best to make the definitions fit your self to make yourself. Implication: feel better: self report is suspect- cannot trust self-report always, assuming that the client is reporting everything truly, cannot even trust your own bias. Who sees what: if other sees- like social reality theory- and you cannot- so blind spot.
