PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Rosy Retrospection, Belief Perseverance, Precognition

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Amy Muise

Document Summary

We perceive and recall events through the filters if our own assumptions. We judge events, informed by our intuition, by implicit rules that guide our quick 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 expectations help bring them out. Remember: our preconceptions guide how we perceive and interpret info: priming, experiment that examines how predispositions and prejudgements affect how we perceive and interpret info. Instead, found that we construct memories at the time of withdrawal: we construct our distant past by using our current feelings and expectations to combine fragments of info, we can easily revise memories to suit our current knowledge. In search for the truth, sometimes the mind makes a falsehood. 3: we know more than we know we know, our thinking is partly controlled processing and also partly automatic processing. Controlled processing- explicit thinking that is deliberate, reflective, and conscious.