PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Rejection, Fundamental Attribution Error, Overjustification Effect

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Not a perfect representation we store in our minds a reconstruction. Priming effects and stereotyping effects illustrate how our brains are biased to access certain information depending on recently activated information" and chronic habits of the mind. ". Researchers have been able to induce people to recall complicated events from early in life that never actually happened ex. getting lost in a shopping mall. Fake disneyland commercial featuring bugs bunny 1/3 to recall meeting. Implanted memory they incorporate it in their own memories & even start adding their own details. Remembering the liberation of holland however this was when he was 1 nearly impossible that he actually remembers what he actually remembers are stories that he heard from others. Sometimes eyewitness testimony can even overturn forensic testimony. Participants viewed a video of a car crash. 2 conditions: control question: how fast were the 2 cars going when they contacted, leading question: how fast were the 2 cars going when they smashed.