PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psych, Blood Transfusion, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Doing something in hopes of being rewarded external attribution. Overjustification decreases intrinsic interest in a task (too much reward) Ex: pay kids for good grades, going to get a bottle of chambord from the liquor room at the prospect of a tip. Paying kids for grades causes them to lose interest in classes. Paying people for stories and poems are not nearly as creative. If it was through sexual behavior through blood transfusions if they had unprotected sex lead to anger but through a blood transfusion it led to feelings of pity. Pediatric aids foundation vs gay men help fund=punish some for having the virus but bottom line they both have the virus and need help. Fundamental attribution error: correspondence bias , refers to the tendency to overestimate the extent to which people"s behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors, and to underestimate the role of situational factors, implications:
