PSY220H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cognitive Load, Thought Suppression, Fundamental Attribution Error
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6 factors that lead to tv aggression: priming/accessibility, desensitization, altered perception, modeling, arousal spills over. Dual process: persuasion: central and peripheral route thought suppression: looking for distracters and searching for unwanted target - ironic reboud effect occurs under high cognitive load. Study 2: arousal leads to increase in agressive when emotion is neutral and when emotion is negaitve. Ironic rebound effect - occurs when searching for distracters and searching fo r unwanted target. Fundamental attribution error increases under high cognitive load. Anxious woman talking about calm or anxious topic. When cognitive load is low - augmentation + discounting happens. When high - f. a. e. occurs - no situational correction. Failure to augment or discount when high need for closure (and thus high cogniti ve load) When low cognitive load- self-consistency e. g. if low self-esteem, pay attention to neg info more than pos.
