PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cognitive Dissonance, Condom, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Social psychology: why did someone do that? we observe (personality) one another. What causes certain behavior: examines the individual within the group, examines the ways in which we think about, influence, and relate to, social thinking how we process social information. Information used to make an attribution: internal/dispositional attribution - it is something within the person. Dispositional attribution: high consistency, low distinctiveness, low consensus. Situational attribution: high consistency, high distinctiveness, high consensus. Fundamental attribution error: when explaining others" behaviours, we tend to: Self-serving bias: when explaining our own behaviour, we: Attitudes positive or negative evaluative reactions toward a stimulus; how we feel about behaviour: affective, cognitive, and behavioural reactions, supported by personal beliefs and values. Attitudes often do not predict behaviour very well. When do attitudes predict behaviours: situational factors are weak, accessibility of the attitude, general attitudes predict general behaviour and specific attitudes predict specific behaviour.