PSYC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Cognition, Urban Guerrilla Warfare, Psych
29 Jul 2020
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Cognition is controlled if it meets most of the following criteria. Can direct, change or override auto processes. To regard as resulting from a specified cause or source. 3 people entered house with mgs and kidnapped her: sla members. Demanded father give money to poor: met demands and not released. To be released and then was not again. Sla robbed bank: 2 people killed, patty was the driver. Members were later arrested: she was among the arrested, charged for robbery with violence. Real choice was to join them or die. The why question: inferring causes of others behaviour. Her behaviour is primarily a function of her situation. Her behaviour is primarily a function of personal disposition. Something within her that made her act this way. S = situation the person is in. How much of patty"s behaviour is attributed to her disposition.
