Psychology 1100E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intentionality, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Cognitive Dissonance
10 Apr 2020
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People make attributions about their own and other people"s behaviours. Attributions: judgements about the causes for our own behaviours and other people"s behaviours. People can explain behaviour using the following attributions: personal or internal behaviour is caused by characteristics of the person, situational or external behaviour is caused by aspects of the situation. Attributions are inferences not necessarily accurate. Actor-observer bias: how we perceive our own behaviour and how other people perceive our behaviour might be quite different. A common bias is the fundamental attribution of error (fae) Attributions for others" behaviours more personal. Attributions for our own behaviours more situational. Situational attributions require more thought and effort. Tendency to attribute our successes to personal factors and attribute our failures to situational factors. The extent to which people engage in the self-serving bias depends on a number of factors such as psychological state and cultural norms. Judgments of others/self: research tends to show that there is a stronger tendency for.
