PSYC 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Dissonance, Psych
December 5, 2017
Social Psychology
Lecture 10
Social Psych
• How the real or imaginary presence influences you
Our thoughts
• When something happens, we try to figure out why
Person vs. situation
• Attribution theory: Heider – gie ausal eplaatio for soeoe’s ehaiour, ofte
crediting situation or persons disposition
Fundamental attribution error
• Underestimate role of situation and overestimate role of disposition
• Assume behaviours due to personality
Effects of attribution
• Ho e eplai soeoe’s ehaiour affets ho e reat to it
Attitudes – three components
• Beliefs (thoughts)
• Reactions (actions)
• Affect (feelings)
Social thinking
• Foot-in-the-door
o Agree to something small first, later its more likely for them to agree for
something big
• Attitudes follow behaviour
o Cooperative actions promote positive behaviour
• Cognitive dissonance theory – attitudes do not with actions, tensions reduce by
changing this
Role playing
• Zimbardo – assigned roles of guards and prisoners to students and found that guards
and prisoners developed role appropriate attitudes
Ash’s oforit stud
• Participants were asked to say the two lines closest to some size and then they change
their answer to conform. More than 1/3 will do this
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Document Summary
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