PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Revolution, Terror Management Theory, Double Bind
11 Mar 2013
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Affirmative action: a social policy designed to redress a legacy of discrimination against visible minorities, women and handicapped. So what"s this baseball player named jackie robinson got to do with all this: way out of the dilemma, time and place where overt racism is widespread, segregation . American issue, so jackie stayed in montreal: he was a fabulous baseball player, montreal fans loved him, fellow players, americans, from the south, hated him. Locus of control: counter part of attribution theory, some people tend to look for internal causes, especially when analyzing their own behavior. You are the agent and you are what makes things happen: others only look for external causes. If you"re a middle class child where you have some control of your life and have some agency and develop internal locus of control- tendency to see self, you or others, are cause of things. Naturally- quick to analyze, i"m the agent,
