PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Counterfactual Thinking, Belief Perseverance, Confirmation Bias
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G20 protesters: black bloc tactics, and the polices" action to detain innocent people: We perceive events through the filters of our own assumptions, we judge events by our intuition, we explain events by attributing them to the situation or to the person, and we expect the events. We respond not to reality as it is but to reality as we construe it. Priming: activating particular associations in memory; it"s the awakening or activating of certain associations in the brain. Experiment done by john bargh et al. (1996): completing the sentence change the participants" walking speed. Experiment done by rob holland et al. (2005): clean and the students" attitudes towards keeping clean. Ex. for priming: watching scary movie interpreting furnace noises as intruder, emotions affects how we think, and psychology students reading about psychopathologies make them anxious about themselves as potential psychopaths. Much of the social information processing is automatic, unintentional, out of sight and happens without our conscious awareness.
