PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Condom, Cognitive Dissonance, Fundamental Attribution Error
3 Apr 2016
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Examines individuals in the group, and the ways we think about influence, and relate to one another. Social thinking: how we process social information. Judgments about causes of our own and other peoples behaviour and outcomes. Yes = high consistency yes = low distinctiveness no = low consensus. Can only get us so far: we don"t always have the answers, sometimes chronic situational factors can start to look like personality traits. Feel like we know somebody even when we don"t know anything about him or her. We make more personal attributions for success, and more situational attributions for failure. This can be both beneficial and problematic. Self-esteem increases and students un fact to worse in the class. Positive or negative evaluative reactions toward a stimulus. Attitudes often do not predict behaviour very well. Aware of our attitudes and they are strongly held. General attitudes predict general behaviour, and specific attitudes predict specific behaviour.
