PSYCH 280 Final: Psych 280 Lecture copy.docx
24 Oct 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
09/05/2013 sense that one is competent and effective more persistence less anxiety less depression illusions of control belief that chance events are subject to our influence langer lottery ticket study rally caps moving your hat will make your team better if you don"t wear your lucky shirt that is why team lost impression management the strategic control of information communicated to audiences reading over a text to make sure it sounds okay audience can be real and imagined self handicappying protecting image by creating a handy excuse for failure. Theories of how people explain others (and their own behavior) the why we do things two general categories of causes of behavior external attributions situational causes blaming it on things for why you were acting a certain way internal attribution dispositional causes thinking that it is things within you why you act that way.
