PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Narcolepsy

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO241
• Professor: Jeff Schimel

Document Summary

Tina says i studied hard (keener: this is internal) Ted says dude, i totally guessed on every question (external, unstable) Stacy says that exam was so easy, what a joke (external, stable) Task-difficulty attribution: tina and simon would be the happiest with a good grade and saddest with low grade. Example #1: hockey nhl incident where one of the players (tod bartuzzi) purposely hit / tripped opponent players, responses from avalanche fans with extreme responses from. He is an animal a coward a thug harsh judgment: responses from vancouver fans: making the crime appear minor and we should be focusing on bigger issues -esque comments. Simpson: charged for allegedly killing wife and wife"s boyfriend, graham, et al. , 1997, whites = internal attributions harsher sentence, blacks = external attributions lesser sentence. Cause must be present when behaviour occurs and absent when it does not occur: 3 kinds of covariation, consensus, distinctiveness, consistency.