Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fundamental Attribution Error, Personality Psychology, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Chapter 4 psych 2550 not necessarily always the case. We expect people to display consistent behavior across situations but this is. Cross-situational consistency: the individual"s consistency across different types of situations. Personality paradox: conflict between intuition of intra-individual consistency and the research results, which show a lack of intra-individual consistency. Person versus situation debate: the belief that to the degree that the person was important the situation was not and vice versa. Situationism: theory that dispositional consistency is a myth and individual behavior is entirely determined by situational attributes. For social psychologists the noise was the person and for personality. There may be a distinctive temporal order, a stable pattern over time that is. Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to focus on dispositions as causal explanations of behavior. Error variance: the (cid:498)noise(cid:499) or the non-essential variance to be discounted from. The finding of large variation in a person"s behaviors across situations coherence and stability that underlie individuals" thoughts, feelings, and.