PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - James W. Pennebaker, Sedation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3170
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

We select what we know because we have a conformation bias (we select what we are comfortable with) January 10th, 2012: relates to what we think and its impact on health (we can control our world more if we know how things work) we attribute things to what we know, but this can lead us astray. We try to discern the motives and personality traits. Psychologist"s look at how such judgments are made. Fundamental attribution error (bias in not giving the situation credit for influencing our behavior, we tend to overestimate internal characteristics on how we feel, we discount the influence from the environment. Actor-observer bias contributing situation outcomes to ourselves internal characteristics to others (swerving because in a rush, but the other person swerving may be a jerk to us) Defensive attribution blame the victim for what has occurred to them.