PSYC 2600 Chapter 10: Personality Chapter 10.odt

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Elizabeth Nisbet

Document Summary

Imagination inflation effect; a memory is elaborated upon through imagination leading the person to confuse the imagined event with events that actually happened. Ex; having a person imagine something as unusual as shaking hands with mickey mouse can lead them to have false confidence that it actually has happened. 2: cognitive unconscious view and motivated unconscious view; acknowledges that information can get into our memories without our ever being aware of the information. Ex; the phenomenon of subliminal perception some information such as the phrase buy a coke is flashed on a screen so quickly that you don"t recognize the actual words: subliminal information prime associated material in memory . Priming makes that associated material more accessible to conscious awareness than is material that is not primed. Ego psychology: we might characterize freudian psychoanalysis as id psychology, erikson noted that ego was involved in mastering the environment achieving ones goals and hence establishing ones identity.