PSY 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Belief Perseverance, Dispositional Attribution

• School: Drexel University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 150
• Professor: danettemorrison

Document Summary

Perceiving our social worlds: priming- the particular associations to a memory, belief perseverance- beliefs can grow and survive despite receiving evidence that shows otherwise. Beliefs and experiences control how the mind constructs events: memories are not always exact. Reconstructed from feelings that occur after: misinformation effect- the tendency people have to include wrong information in their memories. Intuitive judgments: unconscious mind plays a big role in effecting behavior, controlled thinking- explicit= deliberate/ conscious, automatic processing- implicit= habitual/ unconscious. Expertise: overconfidence, overconfidence phenomenon- the tendecny to be more confident than correct. Explaining our social worlds: misattribution- wrongly attributing a behavior to the wrong source, attribution theory- the method that is used to explain other people"s behavior. Internal dispostions vs external situations: dispositional attribution- causes my lack of abiltiy. Spontaneous inference- the automatic inference of a trait that follows exposure to a behavior. Fundamental attribution error- the tendency to underestimate a situational influence and to overestimae a dispostional one.