Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fundamental Attribution Error, Promiscuity, Stereotype Threat

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Campbell

Document Summary

Listening to, affirming, and empathizing w/ someone"s feelings: esteem support, affirms the qualities and skills of the person, material support, providing physical or monetary resources to aid a person. Intersexual selection: selection of a mate based on attraction and traits, direct benefit -> provide advantage to the mate. Inclusive fitness: measure of organism"s success in the population, based on # of offspring, success in supporting offspring, ability of offspring to support others. Implicit personality theory: people make assumptions about how different types of people, their traits, and behaviors are related, halo effect. Judgments of an individual"s character can be affected by overall impression of individual: answer why people are often inaccurate when evaluating people that they either believe to be generally good or bad. Just-world hypothesis: tendency of individuals to believe that good things happen to good people and vice versa, self-serving bias.