PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Antipsychotic, Mania, Ableism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

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Psyc 1001 introduction to psychology test 3 study notes: 45 multiple choice questions - chapter 12, 10 and 11. Schema integrated set of cognitions or knowledge base about objects, people and events. Social stereotypes belief that people have about the characteristics of a group of people on the basis of their initial knowledge that the others have positive traits. Social psychology - study of social situations that affect the thoughts, feelings and actions of others. Situational attribution if we make a situational attribution a(cid:271)out so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour, (cid:449)e explain their behaviours by considering how external factors caused them to behave in that way: ex: the external situation, environmental factors, situational explanations (health) Fundamental attribution error we are more likely to make dispositional attribution about others. Situational attribution training reduces attribution biases by teaching people to re-focus on potential situational explanations of behaviour rather than jumping to conclusions w-out explanation.