PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fundamental Attribution Error, James W. Pennebaker, Master Sergeant

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3170
• Professor: Joseph Baker

Document Summary

Psyc 3170 health psychology lecture 2 jan 16. Relates to what you think and its impact on health. We try to discern motives + personality traits. Psychologist look at how such judgments are made. How to answer simple question of how are we feeling today. We tend to ignore situation factors help determine, rather we pay attention more and are more sensitive to internal things like personality, internal motives. We tend to be more sensitive to things others do, attribute other people behavior to internal than situation factors. Although we tend to ignore situation factors, we still attribute more for ourselves than others (observer) More sensitive to how situation factors determines how we act in certain situation. To reduce anxiety, motivated to see the world the way we would. Physical symptoms tend not be enough for us to feel/aware we are sick, rather there 3 things according to skelton. People/things in environment to trigger, as well as bodily sensation.