PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Methamphetamine, Egalitarianism, Spurious Relationship
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The whole was greater than the sum of its parts . Julie anders on mind, make sense of stimulus, not on mind, didn"t know tapping. Law of pragnanz tend to interpret reality in simplest way possible. Wholes instead of a bunch of parts. helps us perceive more efficiently, but means we miss the nuances . Context: many illusions occur as a result of misleading contextual cues (or simply no contextual cues), So, remember, everything might not be what it seems. Eat popcorn onto a movie screen in new jersey claimed sales or coke went up 18% and popcorn up 58%, was a lie. Advertising messages played backwards, people can"t tell difference (accuracy 19. 4% chance: 20%) told what to find, 84. 6% said they heard phrases. Unconscious perception social knowledge automatically activated in memory during perception social knowledge is spontaneously and immediately activated in memory w/o intention. Bargh, chen and burrows ("96) prime rudeness or politeness through sentence-unscrambling task.
