Lecture 6

Question 1

What are the different predictions made in affective forecasting?

Answer 1

1. valence of one’s future feelings (pos or neg)
2. specific emotions that will be experienced
3. intensity of the emotions
4. duration of the emotions

Question 2

What is impact bias?

Answer 2

the tendency to overestimate the enduring impact (duration and intensity) that future events will have on or emotional reactions

Question 3

What is construal and misconstrual error?

Answer 3

• what will the event be like?

- misrepresentation of event

Question 4

What is the framing effect and isolation effect?

Answer 4

• what aspects of the event are relevant?

- focusing on key components but there is a lot of other things going on

Question 5

What is recall bias and peak-and-end effect?

Answer 5

• how will I feel about the event

- peak positive/negative experiences remembered as well as emphasis on last events and movements

Question 6

What are examples of correction for unique experiences?

Answer 6

• projection bias

- mental contamination

Question 7

What are expectation effects?

Answer 7

• assimilation vs. contrast
• how am I expecting to feel?
• expectations shape perception

Question 8

What are sense-making processes?

Answer 8

• adapting to fluctuations from what we’re used to at non-conscious level
• ordinization
• psychological immune system

Question 9

What is ordinization neglect?

Answer 9

• in reaction to positive events

- things become ordinary quickly but we don’t take that into account

Question 10

What is psychological immune neglect?

Answer 10

• in reaction to negative events

- operating to make sense of our realities moment to moment

Question 11

Participants were able to keep a picture and one condition was able to switch out their picture at a later time. Which group was happier?

Answer 11

• group who could not change picture where happier

Question 12

What is focalism?

Answer 12

tendency for people to give a lot of weight to one piece of information

Question 13

How can we make better predictions when affective forecasting?

Answer 13

1. adopt an outside view
2. perform some cognitive repairs
3. aggregating predictions (average of predictions)
4. gratitude (savour positives and enhance enjoyment to get closer to prediction)

Question 14

How did people high in extrinsic values predict and experience happiness?

Answer 14

• predicted high happiness for extrinsic

- were actually much happier with intrinsic event