PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Habituation
28 Jan 2018
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Conditions that motivate perceivers to attribute mental states to others. Forced choice essay paradigm: no choice, anti-castro, based on the past week"s discussion and lectures, write a short cogent criticism of. Castro"s cuba as if you were giving the opening statement in a debate": no choice, pro-castro, based on the past week"s discussion and lectures, write a short cogent defense of. Jan 23: finding, people"s attitudes are more intense for pro-c if given a choice, people"s attitudes are more intense for anti-c if not given a choice. Why do we commit the fundamental attribution error: we have inadequate theories of situational influence. In particular we fail to appreciate the power of subtile situational influences: we make person attributions automatically and intuitively. By contrast, situation attributions require controlled, attention-demanding processing: perceptual basis, when we observe behavior, the actor is often more perceptually saint than the background context\situation.
