Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Tachycardia, Averageness, Chicken Wire

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Ex. if i go to school i will be rewarded in life: however, world doesn"t always work this way, and using this hypothesis we may blame people in poverty for being poor. When the just world hypothesis is threatened, we can use these rational techniques: 1. Prevent or correct injustice with petition or changes to legal system. Irrational techniques can also be used: 1. Reinterpreting the events - the outcome, the cause, and the character of the victim. How do we explain the behavior of other people: attribution theory internal vs. external causes, jwh overemphasizes the internal factors. Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism in group and outgroup. Judging someone else"s culture from the position of your own culture ethnocentric: viewing our own culture to be superior to that of others, can lead to cultural bias and prejudice. People within groups share psychological connection between peers, related to culture/spirituality: in group the one we are connected with.