PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Illusory Correlation, Representativeness Heuristic
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We perceive and recall through our assumptions: mood we are in influences what we pay attention to, our expectations, self fulfilling prophecies, self handicapping. Emphasize personality characteristics when we decide the causes of their behaviour. We only pay attention to what we believe. The tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional influences on others" behaviour. When people explain their own behaviour they typically are giving reasons (not causes) that justify how they chose to behave. Causes are objective factors (features of the environment, the actor, etc. ) as discerned by objective or external observers. Negative behaviour (a man is rude to his colleague) Dispositional attribution: the man is a hostile person. Situational attribution: the man was given an unfair. We take credit we things we succeed at. We establish our world by our believes in what is going to happen. Acting bad with someone because i"ve been told that he"s a bad person.
