Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gestalt Psychology, Fundamental Attribution Error, Fritz Heider

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Gives us a sense of understanding, prediction and control. Equifinality = person s behaviour is directed toward a single goal despite changes in the circumstances. If no, behaviour is perceived as unintended (cant infer anything about person s disposition) If yes, behaviour is perceived as intended (proceed to step 2) Step 2: make a dispositional attribution (or correspondent inference ) Same label can be used to describe behaviour and underlying. Disposition . (eg. conclude person is dispositionally friendly after observing friendly behaviour) Two approaches*: analysis of non-common effects associated with chosen action. >note: for every action we choose to take, there are other actions that we choose not to take ( chosen and non-chosen actions). And all actions (chosen and non-chosen) have potential effects (consequences). Some will be common to both chosen and non-chosen actions; some will be non- common or unique to chosen action.