SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Walt Disney World, Statistical Significance, Totalitarianism

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1G
• Professor: S T A N F O R D, P.B A R R E T T, J.

Document Summary

Things that influence your factual beliefs without your knowledge (or permission) Imaginative autobiographical rehearsal imaginative autobiographical rehearsal: attempts to deceive others, moral judgments. Memory: vision is more constructive than we think, we don"t retrieve memories or consult previous experiences instead we construct memories using whatever cognitive materials are close to hand, loftus/memory inflation experiment 1. Week 1: everybody takes life events inventory. Week 2: evaluate disney ad, evaluate control ad. Everyone asked about influence of ad and purpose of: loftus/memory inflation experiment 1 results experiment (demand) More in disney group increased confidence that they had met and shook hands with a favorite tv character at a theme resort (90% vs. 47%) p value of