PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Disruptive Selection, Fluctuating Asymmetry, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Pat Barclay

Document Summary

Fundamental attribution error: attributing behavioural variability to others" personality rather than the situations they"re in. Power of the situation relative to personality. Nevertheless, there are consistent individual differences: humans- personality, non-humans- behavioural syndromes. What causes these individual differences? they are consistent. Proximate psychological mechanisms: how do the brains and emotional responses differ: there has to be something different about their brains! All behaviour comes from the brain/cns no longer controversial that brain causes behaviour. Therefore, logically, if two individuals behave different in exact same situation, this must mean something different happening in their brains. Right now professor is changing our brain, and we are changing his brain in some way. Recall: you receive if raise hand, and sh if don"t raise your hand. Cleary everyone would raise their hand payoff higher. Should expect people to stabilize at optimum if there is one natural selection will select against those at the tails.