PSYCH353 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hindsight Bias, Cognitive Dissonance, Impression Formation
20 Mar 2013
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We remember things better if it matches our expectancies. When people are told that they"ll interact with the person, they"ll remember things better than telling them to memorize the information study impression formation goals and encoding. People change the memories of the past in order to be in line with their expectancies; we change the interpretation of events based on our understanding - fiscchoff, hindsight bias. Effects of goals in retrieval: if you tell that extraversion is good, they"ll rate themselves as more introverted; goal serving as motivation (kunda and fong paper) November not everyone is not happy (but when they think back in september, they think that they"re even worse in september than what they are in november cause they wanna see themselves improving) Mood congruent memory: memory for things that match the valence of our current mood; when we"re happy, we might remember cake or chocolate easily.
