PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Solomon Asch, Cognitive Dissonance, Collectivism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Psy1102f chapter 13 part 1 lecture note 19. Chapter 13 social psychology: scientific study of how presence of others (real/imagined) influence how we feel, behave, act. Social thinking attributions: explanation we offer why behaviours has occurred. Possibilities: dispositional factors: cause of behaviours present within the person -internal, situational factors: cause of behaviour present outside of the person external. There is constant interaction between the two factors. The fundamental attribution error: our tendency when we are explaining the behaviours of other people we will focus on dispositional factors rather than situational minimizing/disregarding other factors. When we are explaining my own behaviours, we will focus on situational factors. There are ex(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s: (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)sider oursel(cid:448)es. When we know someone very well it is less prone to have error. Effects of attributes it does matter influence on choices, behaviours, emotions, etc. Has 3 components: cognitive (beliefs & thoughts), emotional, behavioural.