PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Milgram Experiment, Fundamental Attribution Error, Red Meat

• School: UW
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 101
• Professor: Pickrell

Document Summary

Psych 101: intro to psych - lecture 30 - social behavior and thinking (continued): Men and women: ~65% finish til the end. Closeness and legitimacy of the authority figure. Diffusion of responsibility: obedience increases when someone else does the dirty work. Attributions: judgments about the causes of our own and other people"s behavior. Situational (external) attributions: people"s characteristics cause their behavior aspects of the situation cause a behavior. Fundamental attribution error: when explaining other people"s behavior, we: Fae is reduced when people have time to reflect on their judgments or are highly motivated to be careful. Fae does not apply to our own behavior. Self-serving bias: situational attributions for failures. the tendency to make personal attributions for successes and. Mental set: our tendency to attach more importance to initial information a readiness to perceive the world in a particular way. Schemas: mental frameworks that help us organize and interpret information.