PSY 210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Dissonance, Fundamental Attribution Error, Motivation

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 210
• Professor: Gillis Roderick

Document Summary

Usually explicitly answer no but by implicitly measuring you find out they do: understand limiting factors of it, likert scale, social desirability, ways you might try to overcome limitations of self-report. Be able to compare actual and ought self (agitation, creates anxieties), and actual and ideal self (dejection, creates sadness and disappointment) Specific example of impact bias (overestimating effect of one event and ignoring all other factors that affect happiness level) and immune neglect (underestimating our ability to recover from a negative event) Self-determination theory: ho(cid:449) do (cid:455)ou take a (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior that is(cid:374)"t (cid:373)oti(cid:448)ated and self-determined and how do you internalize the behavior so that the behavior is self-determined and incentivized. Heuristics: distinguish between availability (your memory, how fast it comes to mind) and representativeness (odds, ex: stereotypes) Make up e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ples usi(cid:374)g people"s (cid:374)a(cid:373)es a(cid:374)d (cid:455)ou ha(cid:448)e to re(cid:272)all (cid:449)hat (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept is (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g used.