PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Smoke-Filled Room, Philip Zimbardo, Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Gillian Rowe

Document Summary

Quote by philip zimbardo: you can"t be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel . Fundamental attribution error when you see someone behaving a certain way you assume that they are that way and forget that the situation plays a big role in the way they are behaving. Social psych studies how people are overcome by the power of the situation and how people resist the power of the situation by cognitive reframing which involves the vmpfc (ventromedial prefrontal cortex) I am (more or less) highly articulated self-schema, very well integrated and very highly accessed. Someone who is more responsible than you are anal, people who are less are slackers. Cognitive basis for racism or any other form of categorizing. If someone is different from you in some way it is easier to think that this person is a lot different from you in so many other ways. Coffee cup worth (overestimating the price if it"s theirs)