PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fundamental Attribution Error, Headache, James W. Pennebaker
2 Dec 2013
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Lecture 2 focusing on what you think and its impact on health. The anxiety builds up which motivates you to look behind the reasons: why it happened. Attribution theory seeking out reasons behind a cause of what ever you are experiencing. When we find cause and effect relationship it makes the world more predictable which leads to doing things (health behaviour) that can make us living longer. Also lets us have control and have order in the world. However, many times it causes us to make attributions that are, health and self defeating as oppose to health and self enhancing. We try to discern the motives and personality traits. Psychologist look at how such judgments are made. Fundamental attribution error: basic idea that in general we tend to not pay attention or ignore or discount the importance of situational factors in determining our behaviours.
