PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cognitive Dissonance, Implicit Learning, Learned Helplessness
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Reality is a story, told to us by our brains. Halo effect the bias of a physical attractiveness; mere exposure effect - It becomes what is familiar to us, and gives us a sense of security. When things get hard and life sucks, we fall back on our story cloth mother. E. g. ) self-esteem, self-affirmation theory, meaning maintenance model integration of a whole bunch of theories of how we make ourselves feel better. But our story sometimes becomes a negative story make our own lives worse and worse. E. g. ) pessimism, learned helplessness, self-fulfilling prophecies, depression, stereotype threat. We can make our own collective illusions. Happiness is an exercise in persuasion basically trying to get a message into their mind. The schemas, the embodied patterns, the implicit learning systems, that you have to active. Encode a deeper feeling level how they feel, how they see the world.
