PSY220H1 Final: PSY220 Research Article - Winkielman
17 Feb 2017
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People"s (cid:271)eliefs a(cid:271)out ho(cid:449) (cid:373)e(cid:373)or(cid:455) (cid:449)orks (cid:272)a(cid:374) affe(cid:272)t their i(cid:374)fere(cid:374)(cid:272)es fro(cid:373) e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)ed difficulty of recall. The research suggests that the judgmental impact of subjective experiences is shaped by beliefs about their meaning. It also suggests that the recall difficulty in clinical memory work may lead a person to make negative inferences about his or her childhood. Memory recall renders two sources of information available: the recalled content, subjective experience of ease or difficulty with which this content was brought to mind. The present research extends the exploration of the informational functions of recall experiences beyond frequency judgments to evaluative judgments. Tested if individuals would use their general difficulty in recalling childhood events in evaluating the pleasantness of their childhood (cid:862)how happy was your childhood? (cid:863) When answering questions about their past, people rely on a combination of complex recall processes, current beliefs, and inferential rules that allow them to integrate the various sources of information into the final judgment.
