PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Mirror Neuron, Tap Dance, Intensify

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Ward Struthers

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124-131: memory helps us make sense of our world and allows us to learn from past experience so we can predict the future. If info is very inconsistent with our schema, we tend to remember it since it grabs our attention and forces us to think about it to make sense of it. If schema came before list of behaviours, students better remembered the highly inconsistent behaviours (negative schema presented- students remembered her positive actions) Inferring cause and effect in the social world pg. Just one woman or one person of a certain visible race: those in the group concluded that the visually salient individual was most causally responsible for the discussion. 4: thinking about people and events they"ll say because it"s a fascinating field and allows to progress the world around them (situational attribution: when we experience success, we make internal attributions, ex. Individual differences in motivation to focus on possible situational causes can influence attribution as well: ex.