PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fundamental Attribution Error, World War Ii, Impression Management

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Five chapters: 1,3,4,6,& 8 (40 questions from textbook) Eight lectures: intro, self, self & culture, attribution, attitudes, attributions/attitudes across cultures, conformity & obedience. 5 questions from each lecture (40 questions from lectures) Difference between social psych and other practices. A whole is much bigger than the parts that make the whole (dog picture) Social vs. self perception, self-fulfilling prophecy, hindsight bias. Negative political messages are more persuasive than positive political messages is an example of: c) hypothesis. Hypothesis but not theory because theory has to explain the relationship between variables but hypothesis what association will be tested but not why. Yes and no know different sources" opinions. Healthy self knowledge is a distorted self knowledge: positive self-evaluation, exaggerating perception of control, having unrealistic optimism. * there is an optimal margin of illusion for healthy adjustment. If you are within that margin, you are healthy but beyond that margin it becomes psychological disfunction.