PSYC 2245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Internal Set
9 Dec 2016
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Psyc 2245 - lecture 3 - social cognition and perception. Controlled social cognition: high effort thinking: controlled thinking. Automatic pilot: low effort thinking: automatic thinking. Schemas: mental structures that we use to organize knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects that influence the information people notice, think about, and remember: heuristics (shortcuts in thinking) Availability: people base judgment on the ease with which they can bring something to mind. Representativeness: people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case. Internal (inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about them) External (inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about the situation they are in) Attributional biases: correspondence bias (the fundamental attribution error) Perceptual salience: information that is the focus of people"s attention: role of culture, two-stage attribution process. Starts off internal, then adjusts for external.
