PSYC 2360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Collectivism, Positive Illusions, Alternative Medicine

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2360
• Professor: Towson

Document Summary

Ex. worrying about ebola vs. worrying about getting in a car crash. In this case, your personal experience is more available to you, and therefore has a larger impact on your judgement than more objective information. Person schemas: beliefs about others, their traits, and goals: ex. introverts are quiet, shy and withdrawn. Self-schemas: memory, inferences and info about ourselves: people recall behaviours that are relevant to their self schema more than behaviours that aren"t. Role schemas: behaviours expected of people in certain occupations or social positions: role schema for musicians is that they create or play music. Event schemas: scripts we have for well-known situations. 4/29/16: script for a lecture: finding a seat, taking out laptop, asking questions, packing up and leaving. Unconscious priming - the process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a given trait or con- cept: participants exposed to words relating to high performance subliminally did better on a test.