PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Fundamental Attribution Error, Collectivism, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Pat Barclay

Document Summary

Fundamental attribution error: attributing behavioural variability to others" personality rather than their situation - more in individualistic cultures than collectivistic. Proximate causes: mechanisms and development (what causes the differences in the brain) Raise hand example - raising hand was the favourable behaviour. On any trait there will be an optimum (attractiveness, size, cooperativeness)- around optimum there is variation - most people do not display optimum but rather display variation, Eg two parents, if each parent at optimal level of extraversion and introversion, coin toss, A universal adaption will be possessed by everyone !! Developmental causes: facilitative responses to the environment (condition a - you respond in behaviour a, in condition b you will respond with behaviour b) behave differently due to different environments and different situations. Differential learning - how does past learning affect current behaviour, will it pay off for me.