PSY 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fundamental Attribution Error, Dispositional Attribution, Construals
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Illustrated that social situations can be powerful in uences behind the way people choose to act, therefore we cannot jump to conclusions about why people behave a certain way without considering the in uence of social situations. Social pressure can cause people to behave in ways that are inconsistent with their natural dispositions. To explain why circumstances that seemed unimportant on the surface can greatly affect behaviors. Opting out seems easier enrollment goes up. These seemingly insigni cant circumstances can facilitate, block, or guide our behavior. Cannot just assume that inherent beliefs dictate behaviors bc if we do we fall victim to the fundamental attribution error. Interpretet behaviors in order to make inferences about their causes. Often these inferences we generate occur without our conscious awareness of them. They are a construal an attempt to interpret stimuli or situations we are confronted by. You could have a seperate schema for each of these restaraunts.
