FCFC 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Attribution Bias, Mental Representation, Absenteeism
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Bullying: victim is repeatedly exposed to negative actions on the part of one or more other students. a) Includes physical, verbal and emotional bullying: victims report feeling, anxious, depressed, poor self-concept. b, absenteeism, decline in academic performance. Loneliness and powerlessness, can lead to suicidal thoughts: half of children who are bullied say they never told an adult about it. Behavioral response in a certain social situation is the result of a sequence of processing steps. Steps: encoding selective attention to relevant aspects of the social situation encoding into working memory, mental representation interpretation and meaning applied by the individual including, attribution of causality, interpretation of intent response assess. Can you think of anything else that you could do or say so that you could play on the swing: response evaluation. Saying to other kids that you will let them cut if they let you cut some time is ___ for you: hard! hard easy.