PSYCH 1F03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Availability Heuristic, Fundamental Attribution Error, Representativeness Heuristic
25 Apr 2019
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You are already an expert at judging and understanding the thoughts and behaviours of other people. Learned how to quickly form impressions of people around you. Make automatic judgements to categorize the personality and behaviour of others. Can influence how you judge your own actions and beliefs. Conscious and unconscious judgements you make lead to social perceptions . Influence how you interpret your behaviour and the behaviours of individuals and groups. It is difficult to accurately attribute intentions to observed actions. For every observed behaviour, there are many possible motivating factors. How you interpret the behaviour may lead you to form an impression that may or may not accurately reflect the circumstances. Several theories to explain how you decide to attribute the behaviour. You actively analyze a person"s behaviour to make inferences based on three variables: Whether if he chose to act in the observed manner, to understand why a person is behaving in a particular way.
