Module Review


1		Certain experiments show that people's preconceived notions bias the way they and interpret information. The effect of prior beliefs on social perception is so great that even evidence may be seen as supporting one's beliefs.


2		People are quick to infer general truth from a instance. If examples are readily in our memory, we tend to assume the event is commonplace.


3		People tend to see relationship between evens where none exists, an effect known as the . They readily perceive random events as their beliefs. Our tendency to perceive random events as though they were related feeds another illusion, the .


4		One explanation for the mistaken idea that we can influence chance events is that we fail to statistical phenomenon of toward the .


5		Studies of bias and teacher expectations illustrate the prophecy: the tendency for our expectations to evoke behavior that confirms them.