PSYC 241 Chapter 3: Social Beliefs and Judgements
7 Feb 2017
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We perceive and recall events through the filters of our own assumptions. We judge events, informed by our intuition, by implicit rules that guide our snap judgements, and by our moods. We explain events by sometimes attributing them to the situation and sometimes to the person. We expect certain events, and our expectation sometimes helps bring them about. Priming: the awakening and activating of certain associations in our memory. Embodied cognition: the mutual influence of bodily sensations on cognitive preferences and social judgements. Belief perseverance: persistence of your initial conceptions as when the basis for your belief is discredited but an explanation of why the belief might be true survives. Shows us that beliefs can take on a life of their own and survive the discrediting of the evidence that inspired them. Misinformation effect: incorporating misinformation into one"s memory of the event after witnessing an event and then receiving misleading information about it.
