PSYC 473 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Life Satisfaction, Leg Break, Stroop Effect
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Told a story about target person, characteristics related to the subject"s. Impressions for memory more weighted by chronic: people focused on the chronic more in the stories. Validates the idea that people focus on what they find accessible. Could also reflect what people felt they should talk about, what they thought other people were interested in: bargh & pratto (1986) Assessed chronic accessibility through descriptions of others. More interference on subject"s chronically-accessible dimensions: chronic = 780 ms, non-chronic = 730 ms, so different people have different types of concepts chronically accessible, and ready to apply in social perception. Wilson & capitman (1982: priming a script a method through which social events will unfold. And = 80% solved it: you had to see the box of matches as a box and matches (separated) so that people know to use the box to solve the problem. 48, 24, 12, 6: donald story (he was being a little hostile)