PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Dispositional Attribution, Cognitive Dissonance, Johari Window
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We don"t always see the world as it truly is: visual illusions, selective attention. Focusing on one thing makes you miss something else: motivated forgetting. Remember things that are convenient for us: correspondence bias. We tend to attribute other peoples behavior to who they are not the situation: self-serving bias, prejudice. We are prone to categorizing people and relying on short cuts rather than appreciating diversity. Recognize the value in other perspectives . There are things that we don"t know about ourselves: split brain patients. Our brain can come up for explanations that are completely false but we believe them. Others are better at reading our emotions than we are. Being good at a certain skill requires you to know what makes you talented or not. Personality: laura tells melissa that she doesn"t spend enough time with her kids, but melissa thinks laura say this because she has anxiety about not spending enough time with her own children.
