PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Representativeness Heuristic, Dispositional Attribution, Fritz Heider
20 Feb 2015
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Representative heuristic just matching someone to archetype that is available in mind, theres no assumptions that come with matching, its strictly physical like a recall ability. Filling in the blanks: implicit personality theories because someone"s nice, you expect them to be generous. Hella dispositional assumptions within creating corresponding behaviours/traits that you think also attribute to this person. Type of schema people use to group various kinds of personality traits together, fill in the blanks concept where u judge the rest of a person based on what you know: causal attribution, attribution theory, shortcuts. Correspondence bias, 2-step process, exception, influence of goals (self- serving attributions: non verbal communication: communication without words, intentional or not intentional, facial expressions, body language etc, charles darwin, proposed that basic emotions are species not culture specific. Certain basic emotions are not restricted to individual culture, can be understood by everyone in the world.
