PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Orienting Response, Confirmation Bias, Stressor
28 Jan 2013
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Ergonomics = human engineer; set up cars properly so people wont get head/neck injuries. Biopsychosocial model of ergonomics: when found technological changes in workplace, people are upset about it, hours of use of machines correlated with health complaints (4% variants, attributed to correlation, relationship of kind of job and health complaints. Most complaints from clerical staff who just started using computers. Next group had most complaints from clerical staff who had not yet started using computers. Doctor diagnosed something else when athlete comes in to say he/she has chest pain. Doctor attributes the type of person he is, instead of thinking he has a heart attack. Failed to ask more questions because symptoms are like everyone else. First 3 patients had the flu, assumed from your symptoms. Doctor fails to pay attention to challenge his/her ideas, but pays attention to what works or pops in their head.
