PSYC 2310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fundamental Attribution Error, Floyd Henry Allport, World War Ii

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Everything in the textbook and lecture is fair game; videos to cyber psyc, articles at the end of the online textbook discussions in class, etc 8 lectures, all information up to last thursday"s lectures. 40 questions from textbook and 40 questions from the lecture note. 8 questions from each chapter of the 40 questions on the textbook. Floyd allport wrote an important book on the interaction of in in their social contexts. Social vs. self perception, self-fulfilling prophecy, hindsight bias. Is it possible to have accurate understanding of self- knowledge. Yes, autobiography writers ( self concept is the most complete form of knowledge imaginable) No, psychoanalysts (self concept is very hard to explain and don"t have access to it unless we are guided buy a professional. According to taylor and brown (1988)good mental health includes. There is an optimal margin of illusion for healthy adjustment; beyond the margin it becomes psychological dysfunction. Empirical studies show that self esteem is stable.