PSY 121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Dissonance, Social Cognition
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Norms (social): rules that regulate social life, including explicit laws and implicit cultural conventions. Role: given social position that is governed by a set of norms for proper behavior. Culture: program of shared rules that govern behavior of people in a community or society, set of values, beliefs, and customs shared by most members of that community. Entrapment: gradual process in which individuals escalate their commitment to a course of action to justify their investment of time, money, or effort. Social cognition: area in social psychology concerned with social influences on thought, memory, perception, and beliefs. Attribution theory: theory that people are motivated to explain their own and other people"s behavior by attributing causes of that behavior to a situation or a disposition. Fundamental attribution error: tendency, in explaining other people"s behavior, to. Explicit: aware of them, shape our conscious decisions and actions overestimate personality factors and to underestimate the influence of the situation.
