Introduction to psychology notes

lec 1 video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fbrl6WoIyo)

what our brains interpret is context-dependent or dependent on our expectations, a visual example is any optical illusions. an auditory example is things like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EPLG0ihdcs) 

our memories are unreliable, our memory remembers the general overall pattern and fills in the holes accordingly 

for example when a group is asked to remember a list of words that are "sour, candy, sugar, bitter, good, taste, tooth, nice, honey, soda, chocolate, heart, cake, tart, pie,"  everyone falsely remembered the word sweet.

this is because all of the words fall under a similar category and their minds filled in the gap accordingly. 

Automaticity is the concept of our minds doing things automatically doing stuff to be efficient. 

people are bad at predicting what makes us happy. we are also bad at predicting what we will do in certain situations, I'm not sure why the lecture guy brought this up and how this connects with the other stuff in the lecture, maybe it has something to do with automaticity. I know predictions are based on past experience. 

how are all these points connected? I have a vague idea but I'm not sure. there is a common thread of our brains being unreliable and what we interpret or predict or remember is context-dependent, I'm not really sure if I'm interpreting this right or not though and I don't know if context-dependent is the right phrase.