PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fundamental Attribution Error, Victim Blaming, Cognitive Dissonance
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Built in process of many things never think about judging someone, automatic processes and unconscious to thin for us. Internal attribution attributing it to their personaility, external means youre attributing to the external factors. Bias that we act the way we do because of who we are, honest under situational factors, far more important is the sitational factor. Most things in life there aren"t objectives measures, 0% chance that we would get divorced, im not a bad driver, im over average at driving etc self serving. Groups give you access to potential partners and mates. Groupthink powerful groups become isolated, nobody who will disagree with the leader, make bad decisions bcz all dissenters suppressed, Biological and psychological factors to stress, do you hold belifs that are untrue about the world, are u a negative thinker, social factors war zone, unemployed, environemtal factors equally important.
