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| Adaptation level phenomenon |
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| we adapt to a level of stimuli, and you react to changes from that level |
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| looking at where we are v.s. where others are |
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| synthetic happiness is the same as happiness, even better, painting study |
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better at remembering the faces of people from our own race than people of different races
-why? because we have more exposure to people of our own race, we are better able to pick out the details of faces from our race |
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| process through which memories for a particular event become distorted by information encountered after the event occurred |
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| our inability to detect changes, whether in a scene or in an object |
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| change blindness blindness |
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| not being aware that you have change blindness |
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| negative feelings when we feel unable to cope with demands of environment |
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| belief that we can influence our environments in ways that determine our outcome. people with perceived control are healthier |
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people think good things are more likely to happen to them than other people and bad things are less likely to happen
-leads to an increased sense of perceived control |
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| considered a form of pessimism, results from explaining negative life events as due to stable internal and global factors. ex "I'm dumb!" instead of "This class is hard for me." |
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| our tendency to exaggerate after the fact your ability to have foreseen how something turned out. very common after a suicide |
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| 1973: 'hollow, empty, thud'; patients pretending stayed in hospital for a very long time b/c doctors were trying to use hindsight bias to prove schizophrenia; projecting their diagnosis onto the past |
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| self-confirming diagnosis |
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| our own behavior tends to create the person that we expect to see; asking leading questions that elicit |
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| mildly depressed people make more accurate judgements about themselves rather than self-serving judgements |
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adolescents most susceptible to feeling lonely, men feel lonely if they're not part of a group, women feel lonely if they don't have a close one-on-one friend
-lonely people make poor first impressions |
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| feel anxious when you want to give a positive impression but don't think you'll be able to |
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1948: examined pigeons who were getting food on a random basis; some developed pigeon superstitions
-pigeons did more superstitious behavior in times of INCREASED UNCERTAINTY |
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