PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fundamental Attribution Error, Dispositional Attribution, Harold Kelley

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

Document Summary

Short-term memory: information and input that is currently activated. Attending to some to some amount of sensory stimulation in your environment. Long term memory: information from past experience that may or may not be currently activated. Information that is actively rehearsed or distinctive, goal relevant or emotionally salient gets consolidated into our long term memory for later retrieval. Retrieval is a process that is colored by many of factors; our biases, schemas, motives, and our goals. We often build memories from recollections that are available to us often referred to as a reconstructive process. When we try to recall info about an event, our schemas guide what comes to mind; we often remember info that matches our preexisting schemas and ignore info that conflicts with it. Schemas: a cognitive framework that helps organize and interpret information in the world around us. While we typically remember what is consistent with our schema, we also remember information that is highly inconsistent.