PSYCH 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intelligence Quotient, Scantron Corporation, Mate Choice
Document Summary
Review sheet will be posted no later than wednesday, sept 25. Review session on tues, oct. 1 from 11 - 12 pm in 107 gpb. You must bring your own red medium scantron sheet + a pencil. Approximately 27-28 multiple choice questions, 4 short answer. What to study: lecture, discussion, textbook, supplementary articles. Bring your own questions it will be a q&a format. Refers to our tendencies to seek, interpret, and create info that veri es our pre-existing beliefs about the world. There"s value in having stable knowledge + feeling we have a grasp on the world. Info seen rst has a greater impact on impressions than info seen later. Asch (1946): intelligent, industrious, impulsive, critical, stubborn, envious had a more positive impression than envious, stubborn, critical, impulsive, industrious, intelligent . Tendency to maintain one"s beliefs even after they have been discredited.
