PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Three Steps, Controllability, Belief Perseverance
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Perceptual salience the information that is the focus of people s attention. We tend to focus our attention on the person, not the situation around them. Often situational causes are difficult for us to interpret. Most people spend more time looking outward rather than inward. Actors have more information available about themselves than do observers i. e. more consistency and distinctiveness information. The tendency to see other people s behavior as caused by dispositional factors, but se. Anchoring and adjustment heuristic automatic internal attribution attempt to adjust this attribution by considering the situation the person was in. Often don t make enough of an adjustment in the second step. The belief that people get what they deserve in life and deserve what they get. Remember that we are motivated to protect the self. Our beliefs about the social world can create reality. Persistence of your initial conceptions, as when the basis for your belief is discredited.
