PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stanford Prison Experiment, Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Dissonance
6 Apr 2016
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The ability to control impulses and delay graiicaion. Marshmallow study: kids who resisted the temptaion to eat marshmallows later had more success in school and socially. Having close relaionships is associated with improved health and longevity. Social support calms, reduces blood pressure and stress hormones. Aerobic exercise reduces the risk of heart disease, cogniive decline and demenia, and early death. Aerobic exercise reduces depression and anxiety, and improves the management of stress. Control group diet, medicaion, and exercise advice. Result: modifying lifestyle led to reduced heart atack rates. Religiously acive people tend to live longer than those who are not religiously acive. Healthy lifestyle behaviors, social support, hope for the future, feelings of acceptance, relaxed meditaion of prayer. Atribuion a conclusion about the cause of an observed behavior/event. Atribuion theory we explain others behavior with two types of atribuions: situaional and disposiional.
