PSYC 395 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Dispositional Attribution, Slow Learner, Fundamental Attribution Error
28 Feb 2017
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We respond not to reality as it is but to reality as we construe it: priming -- activating particular associations in memory. Our thinking and acting are subtly primed by unnoticed events. Put people in a good mood and suddenly their past seems more wonderful, their future brighter. Much of our social information processing is automatic. It is unintentional, out of sight, and happens without our conscious awareness. Embodied cognition -- mutual influence of bodily sensations on cognitive preferences and social judgments: perceiving and interpreting events. The better we know people, the more accurately we can read their minds and feelings: political perceptions (pg: 80; gd: 107) When social information is subject to multiple interpretations, preconceptions matter. Sports fans perceive referees as partial to the other side. Political candidates and their supporters nearly always view the news media as unsympathetic to their cause. Ppl everywhere perceive mediators and media as biased against their position.
