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Reality as an Illusion Flashcards

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Your mind is limited

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Can only actively perceive one thing at a time - You are only perceiving a tiny fraction of what’s going on

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Your mind is deceptive

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You perceive things that aren’t there - You can’t always tell the difference between what your mind perceived and what your mind creates

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Perception is a combination of…

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bottom-up and top-down processing

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Bottom-up

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Raw Sensory Data

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Top-Down

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Expectations learned through previous experience

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You never see “sort of duck” or “sort of rabbit”

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It is a duck, or it is a rabbit

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We never see reality as it is…

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only as we interpret it

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Individual perception of a social interaction

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“they were fighting”…“no, they were joking”

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Individual perception of a person

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“her crying was fake”…“no, it wasn’t”

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Individual perception of themselves

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Do other people see you the same way that you see yourself?

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The Kuleshov Effect

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A man’s neutral expression interpreted as… multiple different emotions depending on the context of the images

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The Kuleshov Effect occurs because the viewer….

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“fills in the blanks” and makes an interpretation consistent with the context

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Rashomon Effect

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Contradictory descriptions of the same event by different people

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Eyewitness Testimony

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One of the most convincing types of evidence to a jury, one of the most flawed types of evidence

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Eyewitness testimony is flawed because…

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accuracy requires attention, perception, and memory - errors and biases are possible at every step

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Why are eyewitnesses so unreliable?

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  • Can’t remember what you never paid attention to
  • Fear and stress can impact attention
  • Attention narrows (“tunnel vision”)
  • Attention fixates (gets stuck on one thing)
  • But, attention may fixate on small details that aren’t helpful for making a correct identification
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Source Misattributions

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A familiar person may be falsely identified as a perpetrator - “familiar” in this case doesn’t mean they knew person ahead of time, just that they may have seen the person before

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Wells and Bradfield (1998)

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  • Participants view videotape with gunman in view for 8 seconds
  • Participant then given photos of different suspects
    Asked to identify a suspect - Everyone made an identification
    • But, the actual gunman’s picture was not present
  • Misidentification because gunman was expected to be present
  • Choose suspect who most closely resembles the gunman they saw
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Perception is an active process..

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  • Attention
    • Limited and selective
  • Encoding
    • Assigns perceptual “meaning”
  • Memory
    • Constructive
      • Remember things as they were expected to be
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Confirmation Bias

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The tendency to pay attention to and interpret information in ways that confirm your original expectations

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Positive Testing

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Only asking questions in way that to would confirm an expectation
- Not asking questions that could disconfirm expectations

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Self-fulfilling prophecies

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Behaving in such a way that leads people to act in the way that you expected

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Illusory Correlation

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An illusory correlation is perceived relationship that does not actually exist

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Redelmeier and Tversky (1996)

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  • 18 arthritis patients observed over 15 months
    • The weather also recorded
    • Most patients were certain their arthritis pain was correlated with the weather
    • The actual correlation was almost zero
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Common Illusory Correlations

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Superstitions, rituals, “full moon” nights, steryotypes,

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Barnum effect

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Giving vague and slightly contradictory information - the individual can interpret the information to support whatever view they already have

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Positive Testing

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Tendency to search for confirming information over disconfirimg information
- More likely to ask questions that will get a “yes” response
- More likely to interpret questions so that we give a “yes” response

28
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Study of Decision Making (Synder & Swann, 1988) - Positive Testing Example

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Who should get custody? - Focus on strengths

Who shouldn’t get custody? - Focus on negatives

29
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Research suggests that most well adjusted people…

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may have slightly unrealistic views about themselves

30
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Positive Illusions

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  • Unrealistically positive views about the self
  • Everyone feels “above average” for positive traits
  • Exaggerated feelings of control
  • Unrealistic optimism
31
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Idealization in romantic relationships

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  • People are more satisfied in relationships when partners have positive illusions of them
  • Happier in relationships when partners see us more positively than we see ourselves
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Confirmation Bias and Positive Testing

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  • Only search for confirming information
  • Don’t search for disconfirming information
  • Interpret ambiguous information as supportive of pre-existing opinion
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Illusory correlations

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  • Believe a pattern exists when there is no true pattern
  • Maintained by remembering “hits” but not remembering “misses”
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Optimal Distinctiveness

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  • People want to feel unique but also accepted
  • Extreme beliefs may help fulfill both social needs
  • Feel special and unique
  • May bring acceptance into a larger social network
  • Get support from other believers
  • Positive feelings about self get reinforced
  • (The role of algorithms reinforcing what you want to see)
35
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Schizophrenia

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  • Schizophrenia is a form of psychosis
    • Lost contact with reality
  • Characterized by
    • Disorganized thoughts and speech
    • “Positive Symptoms” (excesses of behavior)
      • Hallucinations
      • Delusions
      • Paranoia
    • “Negative Symptoms” (deficits of behavior)
      • Catatonia
      • Apathy
      • Avolition
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Positive Symptoms - Dellusions

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  • Delusions of persecution (they are out to get me)
  • Delusions of grandeur (I am the king of Scotland)
  • Delusions of reference (The T.V. is talking to me)

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