1. TELEPRESENCES, MEMORY, AND SOCIAL JUDGEMENT
TELEPRESENCES, MEMORY, AND SOCIAL JUDGEMENT BY Nailah Faraji and Josh LaMarra the sensation of being elsewhere created by the use of virtual reality technology

2. PRESENCE Presence as Presence as Transportation
Perceptual Realism
The Avengers
Social Realism
The Wire
Presence as Transportation
IMAX v. black and white TV
Gender differences in transportation

4. We use two types of processing on a Daily basis

5. The Cultivation Effect
The Cultivation Effect takes place when we answer questions or recall events using our television memory If someone asked you about 9/11, having not actively been on the premises…you would answer using accounts from the news or newspaper *you believe the social reality portrayed on television

7. Availability Heuristic
“People use the most available or accessible rather than the most appropriate information in memory. This leads people to estimate the frequency of occurrence of an event based on the ease of retrieval rather than making use of other information such as that pertaining to the probability and plausibility of the event” (Tversky & Kahneman, cited in Ditton p. 13). *In other words we’re lazy. We rather recall what comes quickest as opposed to what is accurate.