PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pessimism, Cegep
21 Feb 2013
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Tuesday october 12 self-referent effect spotlight effect self-enhancement vs. self verification: can be both depending on how positively you view yourself, hence can only experiment on people with lower s. e. loyal vs. local. Expectancy judging a desired future as likely: derived form personal history fantasy, thoughts and images about a desired future positively. Whether one will cross the line and no turning back commitment to goal. Pre-decisional: choose goal among many wants and wishes. Post-decisional/pre-actional: plan when where and how to achieve goal: action sets. Post-actional: evaluation of achieved outcome. compare to originally desired outcomes, if discrepancy, deliberation on further courses of action. Mindset: cognitive orientations that affect the processing of info and the control of action in service of. Making a decision or having made a decision implemental mindset: biased encoding of info. I only attend to and store in memory what is relevant. Once decided, don"t process info on alternative choices.
