PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Positive Illusions, Group Cohesiveness, Solomon Asch
8 Mar 2016
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The study of how thoughts, feeling, perceptions, behaviours are influenced by interactions and transactions between people. When you image how others will react. You are alone, yet create token" representations of others. Pictures of your family; the volleyball in castaway (symbolic representation to feel less alone) Social activities cannot be observed in an objective, unbiased fashion. We bring meaning to what we see. Different perceptions of the same event from different perspectives. Attribution: inferences drawn about the causes of events, other"s behaviour, own behaviour. Dispositional attribution: cause due to character, traits, abilities, feelings. Situational attributions: cause due to external constraints, situational demands. When searching for the cause of some negative behaviour, there is a dual tendency for people to: Lee ross developed the term: fundamental attribution error as a label for this tendency. Argued it is the foundation for social psychology. Attitudes towards a person"s behaviour will rely on the attribution made: i. e. , if someone lost their job.
