Chapter 4 Flashcards
Short term memory
Information and input that is currently activated
Long-term memory
Information from past experience that may or may not be currently activated.
What happens to memory when schema comes before a list of behaviours?
When info is inconsistent with schemas, we tend to encode it in memories.
What happens to memory when schema comes after listening to certain behaviours?
Participants recalled consistent with the schema they had formed.
Mood congruent memory
More likely to remember positive info when were in a positive mood, negative info in neg mood.
Misinformation effect
Process by which cues that are given after an event can plant false info into memory.
Ease of retrieval effect
Process whereby ppl judge how frequently an event occurs on the basis of how easily they can retrieve examples of that event.
Causal attributions
Ppl organize perceptions of action in social world in terms of causes n effects.
Locus of causality
Attribution of behaviour to either an aspect of the actor (internal) or to some aspect of the situation (external).
Incremental mind-sets view
View a situation as opportunities to improve and develop their skills and knowledge.
Fixed mind-set
Make more negative stable attributions about themselves in response to challenging tasks and tend to perform worse and experience more negative affect in response to such tasks.
Correspondence inference
Tendency to infer an attitude, desire or trait to a person’s action.
Fundamental attribution error (FAE)
Tendency to attribute behaviour to internal or dispositional qualities of the actor and consequently underestimate the causal role of situational factors.
Actor-observer effect
Tendency to make internal attributions for the behaviour of others and external attributions for our own behaviour.
Covariation principle
Tendency to see a causal relationship between an event and an outcome when they happen at the same time.
