PSC 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Counterfactual Thinking, Counterfactual Conditional, Social Cognition
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Conservatism schemas are hard to change: elicit confirmatory behaviors. Seek and direct attention to relevant and confirmatory information. Bias interpretation of events, people, and objects. Schema-consistent information: focus on the gist/meaning of the event, might lead to false recollection of congruent material. Schema-inconsistent information: focus on the specific details, might be explained away as exception. Self-fulfilling prophecy: the process by which one person"s expectations about another become reality by eliciting behaviors that confirm the initial expectancies: schemas can make themselves come true. The bloomers at the end of this study had a way higher intelligence. Heuristics: mental shortcut or rules of thumb that people use to make judgments: like schemas, heuristics are efficient and often useful. They can lead to accurate decisions and often do (because we wouldn"t be thinking about it often if it would lead us to the wrong decision / our daily routine)
