PSYC1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fundamental Attribution Error, Steven Pinker, Floyd Henry Allport

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People who have depressive tendencies tend to have different images. interactions between the two (e. g. decision making) the basis on which we make decisions is almost certainly not what we think it is. Goals of scientific psychology: what, describing a particular behavior, when, when things are likely to happen. Why scientific psychology: cliches, birds of a feather flock together or opposites attract, absence makes the heart grow fonder or out of sight out of mind. *psychology can reveal things about ourselves that we didn"t know. Case study: what do we see when we look at picture, flicker. If you flick between two pictures you actually find it very, very difficult to see the difference between the two pictures: person changes. Person walks up and talks to a stranger and asks for directions. Something passes between the two people and then the individual changes. The other person doesn"t pay attention they concentrate on the directions instead!

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