PSYCH 7A Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Cognition, Egotism, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Social psychology is the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people. Bystander effect, the tendency for an individual to be less likely to help in an emergency when other people are present: social cognition. Social cognition is the area of social psychology that explores how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information. Attribution theory views people as motivated to discover the underlying causes of behavior as part of their effort to make sense of the behavior. The fundamental attribution error refers to the tendency of observers to overestimate the importance of internal traits and underestimate the importance of external factors when they explain an actor"s behavior. Representativeness heuristic the tendency to make judgments about group membership based on physical appearance or the match between a person and one"s stereotype of a group rather than on available base rate information.
