PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stroop Effect, Fundamental Attribution Error, Nicotine
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Used to diagnose thought disorder if people wrote evil/sinister thing they saw in these pictures it showed clues of a mental disorder. Researchers who used this noticed that there are systematic differences. There is a subdiscipline between the 2: social vs. personality psychologist, social psychologist, situation has a huge influence on predicting behavior, personality psychologist, big 5, temperament, traits. The marshmallow test: powerful test of their outcome on life later on. Poor self control of the child = poor self control of adolescent in school. Recorded/coded the behaviors that children were engaging in by a 3-4 month period. X axis = situations that provoked the aggression or not. 2 observations of the same: child #28 verbally aggressing when the peer approaches them. Goes down when the peer teases them. Profile stability is higher when they are more similar. Interpersonal difference are important to consider because different children would differ in how they react in a situation.
