PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Planning Fallacy, Availability Heuristic, Counterfactual Thinking
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A mental structure that help people organize knowledge about a stim. 4 things schemas do: guide our attention, provide us with scripts so that we know what to expect. Influence our memory: scrpit - a schema that describes the expected sequence of events in a well known situation, such as going to a restaurant. If (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a s(cid:272)ript for so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g people get (cid:448)er(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)fused: walk and freeze example, profoundly influence our behaviour, self fulling profecy. Influence how we act toward that person which. Causes that person to behave consistently with our original expectations. Iq test givn to all students in school. Teachers are told that some students scored high. Teachers said they spent less time with students labelled bloomer. Gave bloomers more and better feedback on their work. Gave bloomers more opportunities and longer time to respond. The bloomers actually got smarter, this shows that more attention in school makes people do better.
