Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Facial Expression, Mirror Neuron, The Emotions

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

Implicit personality theories: people tend to make assumptions about the types of personality traits that go together (schemas, e. g. , if someone is stingy, we assume they are also irritable or unkind. Spontaneous trait inferences: judgments of personality traits tend to happen automatically, with no conscious intention: vary across cultures. Explaining behaviour: attributions theory: the study of how we infer the causes of our own and other people"s behaviour, people explain the causes of behaviour in two ways. Attribution in two steps: make automatic internal attribution (e. g. , a spontaneous trait inference, (sometimes) consider situational factors that may have played a role, can change initial internal attribution into an external attribution. Form of motivated attribution: belief in a just world, people believe good things happen to good people and bad things happened to bad. Self-serving attributions: our successes and failures engender different attributions.