PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Alarm Clock, Fritz Heider, Dispositional Attribution

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Michael Sullivan

Document Summary

* wegner (1994): sometimes the harder we try to inhibit a thought, feeling, or behaviour the less likely we are to succeed. * effort of control is joined by a worry of failure to control. * observed in a wide range of behaviours. * i did not have time to study. * searching for any kind of answer that doesn"t make you feel stupid ask the question but only interested to some answers answers where your protect your self esteem. * those on top: calling yourself stupid is internal and stable. * saying your sick is internal but unstable. * meaning you won"t be sick for very long stable ones have a negative effect on your self esteem processing information to protect the self. * its the second time i take this course. * internal attribution: something i did well, you feel good. * i am stupid: internal (feel a lot worse)