PSYCH 46A Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cognitive Dissonance, Jill Bolte Taylor, Blood Vessel
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The further away you are from a memory, the more likely you would have changed it. Consistency: what can people remember in terms of arguments for controversial issues. Students that had less knowledge on the topic recalled more arguments consistent with their current position. Change: ask older adults about how they were like when they were younger. 35/42 of the traits did not change with age. Memory of traits in the past conforms to the current theory. Hindsight: looking at expert and novice players. Novice showed more bias and experts showed less bias when judging the position the ball was in while swinging the bat. But people with cs and ds bumped up their grades more. Stereotype: participants read identical narratives, differing only by gender of the significant other. Ex: schools in the us are deemed to be in trouble by some people but when these people rate their own schools they give them as or bs.
