PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Dissonance, Social Inhibition

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Pearlberg Steven

Document Summary

Differentiate between personal and situational attributions, and understand the factors that affect the attributions people make. Recognizing one"s personal qualities or characteristics as judgement of a person"s behavior. Judgement assigning cause of a person"s behavior to environment. Correspondence bias: tendency to view behavior as personal even when behavior can be explained by situation. Describe and provide examples of the fundamental attribution error (fae) and the self- serving bias,. Completely fail to consider situational variables while making attributions. People don"t account for situational variables while making attributions. Neglect of influences, leads to reliance on contributions. Self-serving bias: when do good make internal attribution when do bad make an external behavior. Actor observer bias: occurs when we use situational variables to explain our own behavior while continuing to use dispositional variables to explain behavior of others. Define the term attitude, and describe three factors that explain the variability of observed relations between attitudes and behaviors.