PHL145H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Sexual Dysfunction, Totalitarianism, Yield Sign
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Misatribution of source forgetting where we learnt something, making up a story where we learnt it, taking it for our own etc. Misinformation effect after exposure to subtle misinfo, people often misremember. ( it was a yield sign , people started to believe it even though they original saw a stop sign ) The events are so dramatic that it feels like a mental flashbulb went off, freezing a snapshot of things indelibly in our minds but a lot of the time it"s wrong. Confidence and vividness are very fallible indicators of the accuracy of a memory. Through talking to someone, one can be misled to think that something occurred that didn"t. Defense mechanism is something we do (typically unconsciously) to keep from recognizing our actions, motives, or traits that might lower self-esteem or heighten anxiety. Some defense mechanisms involve distortions of memory.
