Last Psychology Blog

Here is a Psychology question for everyone from the book? I will also provide the answer.

Q: How do we tend to explain others' behavior and out own?

A: We generally explain people's behavior by attributing it to internal dispositions and/or to external situations. In committing the fundamental attribution error, we underestimate the influence of the situation on others' actions. When explaining our own behavior, we more often point to the situation. Our attributions influence our personal, legal, political, and workplace judgements.

Good-bye Everyone. Hoped everyone enjoyed Psychology.

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Psychology Overview - Second to last Blog

I have never been one to dive into the mind. Its works are too confusing for me to understand. I also don't care how it works, only that it does. I will not miss this class.

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Not My Type

The process of attribution is the theory that we explain some one's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition.

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.

Stereotypes are a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people.

Illusory correlations are related to stereotyping because is how we think a person is because of the way that they are acting at that moment.

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Psychology Chapter 13

In the lecture, Oedipus was talked about a little. He killed his father and slept with his mother. It was an example of the "it". "It" wants this and "it" that. Oedipus wanted to be with his mother and his father was in the way. This is a form of incest.

Personality has a lot to do with behavior and reward/punishment. If you are rewarded for doing something good, you will continue to act and do that certain behavior. If you are punished when you do something bad, like swear, you will not swear again because you know that you will get punished for it. Of course, there are some people who can't or don't take a clue and learn. They will continue to get punished.

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