PSY 252 Study Guide - Final Guide: Confirmation Bias, Illusory Correlation, Implicit Stereotype
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Availability heuristic cognitive rule that judges the likelihood of things in terms of their availability in memory. Easily associating random events expecting to find significant relationships. Illusions of control the idea that chance events are subject to our influence. Low expectations do not doom a capable child, nor do high expectations magically transform a slow learner into a valedictorian. Self-fulfilling prophecies our intuitive beliefs sometimes lead us to act in ways that produce their apparent confirmation. Research participants sometimes live up to what they believe experimenters expect of them. Behavioral confirmation erroneous beliefs about the social world can induce others to confirm those beliefs: their beliefs make them act in a way that will return the response that confirms their beliefs. Called complaining about hearing voices, then told everything true w/ no symptoms. Most diagnosed w/ schizophrenia and remained hospitalized for two three weeks.
