PSY-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cognitive Load, Psychoanalytic Theory, Murder Of Kitty Genovese
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Take specific instance of behavior and extrapolate onto theory. Had been attacked and murdered in a park overlooked by multiple residents. Over 30 people had witnessed the incident but no one answered her cries for help or called the police. Witnesses said they saw the other people seeing it and assumed someone else called the police. How to tie together theories from different fields. Tends to occur among people who have multidisciplinary knowledge. Baumeister: well-read in different disciplines and wanted to see if there was a theory in psychology that could explain differences in. More cognitive load means people do worse on a task and give up more quickly. When people do something behaviorally taxing, they tend to do worse/exert less effort on next task. Using a lot of it on one task depletes our energy. Cognitive task once people enter dmv vs. those who had already waited half an hour those who waited did much worse.
