Psychology 2720A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fundamental Attribution Error, Gestalt Psychology, Behaviorism
19 Dec 2017
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Chapter one notes: the scienti c study of the way in which people"s thoughts, feelings and behaviours are in uenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Construal: the way in which people perceive, comprehend and interpret the social world. Individual differences: the aspects of people"s personalities that make them different from other people. Sociology: provides general laws and theories about societies, not individuals. Social psychology: studies the psychological processes people have in common with one another that make them susceptible to social in uence. Personality psychology: studies the characteristics that make individuals unique and different from one another. Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to overestimate the extent to which people"s behaviour stems from personality traits and to underestimate the role of situational factors. Behaviourism: a school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behaviour, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment.
