L33 Psych 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pith, Nature Genetics, Behaviorism
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Example b: co-acting subsystems in the realm of automatically activated emotions. Threat anger (cid:862)approa(cid:272)h(cid:863) (cid:373)oti(cid:448)atio(cid:374) (cid:894)high tolera(cid:374)(cid:272)e of risk; (cid:373)oti(cid:448)es for retaliatio(cid:374)(cid:895: anger instigates people to react. Threat anxious (cid:862)a(cid:448)oida(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) (cid:373)oti(cid:448)atio(cid:374) (cid:894)lo(cid:449) tolera(cid:374)(cid:272)e of risk; (cid:373)oti(cid:448)es for safet(cid:455)(cid:895) 9/11: people are ambivalent part of their brain want to go to war (anger); part of their brain wants to remain so as to not provoke terrorists (anxiety) Capturing bin laden satisfaction over seeing justice was done. Capturing bin laden anger over remembered feelings about 9/11. Dual processes 2 things going on more or less at the same time (introduction finish) People who are bad at something often think they are good at it. Their own incompetence keeps them from realizing they are incompetent. I(cid:374)a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to dis(cid:272)er(cid:374) proper pit(cid:272)h (cid:894)(cid:862)to(cid:374)e deaf(cid:863)(cid:895) poor performance inaccurate self- perception: ron burgundy (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t see ho(cid:449) (cid:373)oro(cid:374)i(cid:272) he is. How can psychology deal with this accuracy problem? the logic of convergence.