PSY 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-3: Confirmation Bias, Fallacy, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Barry Zwibelman

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Primacy effect: part of serial affect, those at the beginning of a series are more likely to be remembered. Trait negativity bias: in general, we expect people to be good and when we see someone behaving badly, it tends to stand out. We tend to be highly influenced by negative info. Impression formation: impression formation in social psychology refers to the process by which individual pieces of information about another person are integrated to form a global impression of the individual. Self-fulfilling prophecy: a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true. Ex) teachers made to believe some children had more potential. At end of school year these children had higher test scores, iq scores and evaluated more highly by teachers. Availability heuristic: tendency to estimate the odds that an event will occur by how easily it comes to mind. Representativeness heuristic: people judge the likelihood of an event based on patterns, expectations, or beliefs.