PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nonverbal Communication, Fundamental Attribution Error, Fritz Heider

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 260
• Professor: Lisa Droogendyk

Document Summary

You end up thinking about it more as you try not to think about it. We think about them more because of this system. The monitor has to keep it in thought to search for it. Once operator gets tired, the thought is active on your mind. Thought suppression is associated with suicidal tendency, ocd, problem gambling. Suppress - think of it more - not good for mental health. If you meet a new person, you can"t read their mind to see what they"re like, so you have to guess and make inferences about who they are and what they are like based on their behaviour. Attributions: the way people explain their own and other"s behaviour. We like to be objective scientific about understanding other people. Classify people"s behaviour in one of two categories. Internal attributions: explanations for behaviour based on a person"s characteristics, personality. External attributions: explanations for behaviour based on the situation or social context.