PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Harry Harlow, A Class Divided, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Demonstrate how arbitrary and hurtful racism is. One day, blue eyed people were superior. Next day, brown eyed people were superior: blue-eyed children banded together against brown-eyed, attitudes changed and roles were established, attitudes and abilities shifted, brown-eyed children gave more correct answers on tests, we can also be harsh critics. Human beings, are easily influenced by others and behaviors. We constantly adjust attitudes of those around us, and shift our own attitudes. 1950s 1960s, harry harlow examined effects of social isolation on monkeys: baby monkeys experienced total social isolation for months. One case = stopped eating and died: when they became mothers. Terry anderson held hostage for seven years: despondent and depressed, began feeling himself disintegrate brain grinding down, after a month = mind is a blank, unpredictable stretches of time granted a companion. Read, and concentrate longer, avoid hallucinations, control emotions. Women often extend generous behaviours towards kin and friends.
