PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Fundamental Attribution Error, Fritz Heider, Social Cognition
16 May 2012
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Different kinds of things that go on in your head when you make certain behaviour choices. If the cost of a decision is far enough removed, we don"t seem to give them equal weight in our decisions (eg: concert ticket example). So while we know that smoking is associated with bad consequences, it is not today that you will have cardiovascular disease or lung cancer. Important in health and mental health is that non-compliance with medication is one of the biggest problems. Usually there is a short term benefit for behaviour that has long term consequences. Our minds do not weigh these long term benefits very much. People are in such a state of internal pain that they just want to end it. Cognitive: computer-like, input and output functions, computer metaphor for what is happening inside your head. Understanding the mechanics of cognition will help us understand some of the social things.
