PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confirmation Bias, Peer Pressure, Behaviorism

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Agnes R.Ly

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Mind: mental activity - senses, emotions, memories. Confirmation bias: looking for something that confirms bias, evaluating evidence to accurately judge credibility. Relative comparisons: how some people take advantage of your biases. Ex: bidding, starting with a high range. Hindsight bias- i knew it all along . Mental heuristics (shortcuts)- brain has inclination to shortcut to preserve energy. Bias: the world is a fair and just place. If something bad happened to you, you did something to cause that/ and vice versa. Conscious experience can be broken down into component parts. Mind is too complex to be broken down. The whole is not the sum of its parts . Kept the notion that perception is still subjective and dependent on context. Emphasis on observable behavior and environmental factors. Emphasis on the power of the situation. Explained as to why people completed atrocities.