PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Negative-Feedback Amplifier, Cognitive Dissonance, Observational Learning
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At the end of this chapter you should be able to: Learn the importance of perceiving and understanding others. Learn the importance of perceiving and understanding ourselves. Social cognition: how we perceive and think about ourselves and each other; how we process and make meaning about our encounters. We make attributions about others" actions and about our own. According to kelly we specifically look for ways that events co-vary: cause and effect . In an individualistic culture, the most common error made is the fundamental attribution error: a bias to explain others" behavior by attributing it to their disposition, our own to our situation. In collectivistic cultures: focus on group actions / contextual cues to explain behavior. Cognitive schemas: shortcuts when limited information is available. Schemas: operate when trying to explain why people behave the way they do. Implicit theories of personality: our schemas for . How we interpret what they have done.