PSYC 100 Lecture 9: PSYC100 – Lecture 9

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Oliver Michael Hardt

Document Summary

Psyc100 lecture 9 (social psychology- j"s lecture: self and the other anything done in groups is social psychology, abc attitude affective, behavioural, cognitive, attribution cause of a behaviour (this attributed to that) Ex: matilda cheats in her relationship will attribute it to her relationship sucked, it was dry (situational), matilda gets cheated on person was terrible. Set 1: speaker in front of class gave one lecture, handed out questionnaire at end of class with personality traits, took all results and averaged out. Set 2: lecturer present for whole semester, take questionnaire at end of semester. Set 3: ask family and friends to fill out questionnaire (truest) Set 4: j walks into class and blabs for 5 minutes. Impression of 4 still remains same as 1 and 2. Halo effect when one positive thing about person makes you infer lots of positive thing about the person (if you think a person is attractive you will view them as nice, smart, friendly)