PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Collectivism, Naturalistic Fallacy, Parental Investment
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The banality of evil : theory that anyone is capable of performing acts of brutality: proposed by hannah arendt. Channel factors: certain situational circumstances that appear unimportant on the surface but that can have great consequences for behavior: Either facilitating or blocking behavior or guiding behavior in a particular direction. Seminarians as samaritans study: the likelihood than a student would help an old man in apparent need of help, depended heavily on whether they were in a hurry to give the sermon. Dispositions: internal factors such as beliefs, values, personality traits, or abilities that guide a person"s behavior: underlying causes of behavior (?) Construal: people"s interpretation and inference about the stimuli or situations they confront. Gestalt psychology: people perceive objects not by means of some automatic registering device but by active, usually unconscious interpretation of what the object represents as a whole: german meaning form. ".
