PSYC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Confirmation Bias, Psych, Social Comparison Theory
8 Sep 2020
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Process by which people notice and attend to information in the environment, has important implication to eyewitness memory. The process by which people store and organize information from the environment into their memory. Incorporating misleading information into ones memory of an event. The process by which people recall the information stored in memory. Jurors also find confident eyewitnesses the most believable. Confident eyewitnesses are no more likely to be accurate. Conclusion: eyewitnesses are often far more confident than they are correct. Once you have enough money to satisfy your basic needs, having more money doesn"t really increase happiness. Affective forecasting you acclimate to your wealth. Satisfying relationships are a better predictor of happiness. Distract yourself if you get caught up in social comparison. Checking in is good, ruminating is bad. Take a break, change it up to prevent rumination. Change your attribution about events bring out the good in others.
