PSY 274 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Collectivism, Linear Combination
9 Dec 2015
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Person perception- how people make sense of, explain, and predict one another"s behaviors. A great deal of our own social behavior depends on how we interpret other people"s behavior and the conclusion we reach about them. There are three different ways of studying this topic: na ve scientist- this approach assumes that people will take into consideration all factors they know about a person before coming to a conclusion (rational observation model). Correspondent inference- when we conclude that another person"s behavior reflects a stable, underlying trait. Kelley"s model of casual attribution- people tend to attribute an effect to the possible cause with which it appears to be associated with overtime. People make judgments about the causes of behavior by figuring out 3 things: same way. Consensus- finding out whether others behave in the. Distinctiveness- finding out whether the behavior is unique to the person toward which it was directed.
