PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Degree Of Difficulty, Celery, Observational Error
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Cognitive and affective units mediate the situations-to-behavior response. Need to understand the psychological meaning of the situation for the individual in order to predict the individual"s behavior. Variability in behavior across situations not random error; rather variability is important information that gives us clues about underlying personality system . Desirable and undesirable outcomes and affective states; goals, values, life projects. Everything we do is mediated through contractions of the muscles speaking, writing, etc. Sea squirts: once they do not need to move anymore, they digest their brains and nervous systems as food shows that once we do not need to move anymore, we do not need the luxury of having a brain. The goals that we have (winning the nobel prize, for example) Goals the object of a person"s ambitions or effort. The end toward which an effort is directed; aim. Get coffee to stay awake, or just stay awake.
