Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Authoritarian Personality, Habituation, Morphophonology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-de Hoog

Document Summary

Social psychology: the scientific study of how individuals behave, think and feel in social situations. In the presence of others actual or implied. Attribution: judgements about the causes of our own behaviour and other people(cid:495)s. Situational (external) attributions: aspects of the situation cause people(cid:495)s behaviour. Personal (internal) attributions: behaviour is caused by their traits or characteristics. Evaluating and attributing: behaviour and their outcomes: we underestimate the importance of situational factors and overestimate the, evaluate consistency, distinctiveness and consensus. If all three are high a situational attribution is made. If consistency is low, other conditions are in play (ex. mood) If consistency is high, but the other two are low a personal attribution is made importance of personal/internal factors: ex. we except actors to have the same personalities as their character. Fundamental attribution error: in judging the cause of other(cid:495)s behaviours : yet we don(cid:495)t make this error about ourselves.