Psychology 2035A/B Lecture 15: 26

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Alvin Segal

Document Summary

Cognitive resources is protected by selective attention with high priority given to info pertaining to the self. Cocktail party effect : ability to pick out mention of your name in a roomful of people. Spotlight effect : overestimate how conspicuous we are in the mind of other people. Self-attribution: define self-attributions, and identify the key dimensions of attributions. Self-attributions inferences that people draw about the causes of their own behavior. Three key dimensions of attributions: internal or external. Internal attributions ascribe the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings. External attributions ascribe behavior to situational demands: stable or unstable. Stable attributions the cause of behavior is unlikely to change over time. Unstable attributions the cause of behavior is variable, or subject to change. This dimension interacts with the internal-external one and yields four types of attributions about success and failure: controllable or uncontrollable.