PSYC-2400 Lecture Notes - Osborne Village, Hypothermia, Fundamental Attribution Error
9 Dec 2013
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Choose to put yourself in one situation due to your personality. Be in the situation and remove yourself due to your personality. Ex: multicultural group trapped in small space (elevator) Individualist slant on people being in tune with their own behaviours or being responsible for their own successes or failures. Open mind + give benefit of the doubt: tolerance + own psychological well-being. The power of the situation film: discovering psychology. Description (trying to describe what"s going on -> understanding is not endgame) Causal analysis (does a cause b? does a cramped elevator cause panic?) Study hard or procrastinate or sit in front of the computer and do not do anything -> 3 coping methods (theories) Scientific american blog (melanie tennenbaum article: psychology"s brilliant, beautiful, scientific messiness) The only reason we can defend psychology as a science is because of the quantifiable observations + measurements (same as a physicist or biologist)
