PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cognitive Dissonance, Implicit-Association Test, Murder Of Kitty Genovese
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Unit 14 social psychology notes: attributing behavior to persons or to situations 644, attribution theory fritz heider. The cause of behavior is either situational (surrounding environment) or dispositional (inside/part of you: fundamental attribution error (fae) basing your attribution on only one of the two causes. Underestimating the situation and overestimating the personal factors. Example: he"s poor because he"s lazy. (maybe the situation of a bad economy keeps him jobless) Fae thinking is more likely to happen when we don"t know the person: attribution sources: harold kelley, consensus, consistency, distinctiveness. Judgments about people have consequences socially, economically, politically at the individual level, the larger group and even nationally. B. attitudes and actions 646: attitude: beliefs and feelings predisposing us to people and objects. Actions affect attitudes: foot in the door phenomenon. Agreeing to a larger request because you"ve already agreed to a smaller one (robert cialdini, 1993)
