For a social psychologist like Fritz Heider, it’s important to capture the conscious consideration we use to understand our environment and the people and things in it. One way Heider studied this was by having people watch a short animated film and talk about it. Please review pages 125-6 of your textbook, then watch the film yourself.
1. Why did Heider term his approach “naïve psychology?”
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2. When people watched the film you just saw, how did they tend to describe it?
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3. Heider’s notion that people tend to explain events in terms of specific causes is called:
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