PSYCH253 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Rosy Retrospection, Belief Perseverance, Embodied Cognition

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH253
• Professor: Christopher Lok

Document Summary

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, sometimes to the person. We expect certain events, and our expectation sometimes helps bring them about. Our memory system is a web of associations, and priming is the awakening or activating of certain associations in memory. I(cid:374) a phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)o(cid:374) (cid:272)alled pri(cid:373)i(cid:374)g, people"s prejudge(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts ha(cid:448)e striki(cid:374)g effe(cid:272)ts o(cid:374) ho(cid:449) the(cid:455) perceive and interpret information. Often, our thinking and acting are primed by events of which we are unaware. Much of our social information processing is automatic. It is unintentional, out of sight, and happens without our conscious awareness. Due to embodied cognition: the mutual influence of bodily sensations on cognitive preferences and social judgements. When social information is subject to multiple interpretations, preconceptions matter.