PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fundamental Attribution Error, Fritz Heider, Trailer Park

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: online

Document Summary

The perceiver shapes reality: fundamental attribution error, attempts to answer, why do people do what they do, He focused on why did they do it. Dispositional attribution- attributing the behaviour to the person, Situational attribution- the behaviour has been influenced by the situation, Fundamental attribution error: assume that the person is doing the behaviour because that"s the kind of person they are. Contestants rated that the questioner would be smarter than the contestant, Observers" rating believed that questioners would be way smarter than the contestant! Heider: behaviour engulfs the field: behaviour stands out (figure) and the situation is ground, since the focus is on the behaviour, and is therefore attributed to the person. Based on a certain characterization of what members of a specific group is like, Can lead to a certain expectation of what we think people are going to be like, and we are going to tend to read into their behaviour,