PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Load
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Foundation for more complex human behavior (e. g. , altruism, aggression). The phenomenology : one-to-one correspondence between what i see and. What is out there (i. e. , feels simple, direct, The reality : perception is not simple, involves many steps, and is often inaccurate (though it is generally lawful ). www. notesolution. com. Unconscious inferences from built-in assumptions fill in the gaps. Without such assumptions, we would have a difficult time making sense of the world. But: they can sometimes lead to mistakes, illusions. Person perception is like object perception in some key ways, different in others. Heider (1958): the inferential processes by which we understand people based on their behaviour/appearance are similar to how we understand objects based on their motion/appearance . Principles of causal inference (according to heider, 1958) people should do). Heider"s approach described what people should do , if operating optimally. It lends to scientific measurement (e. g. , on a trait dimension). meaning and order to what would otherwise be.
