Psychology 2720A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intelligence Quotient, Irminones, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Graeme Haynes

Document Summary

We are invested in understanding the reasons for people"s behaviours! Attribution: a judgement about what cause someone to behave in a certain way! Reasons driving the behaviour are not always obvious! There are both internal and external factors that can in uence behaviour! The covariation model: actor responds to a target in a particular situation, ron trips over hermione"s feet when dancing at the hogwarts ball last night! Three possible causes: something about ron (actor attribution), something about hermione (target attribution), something about the hogwarts ball last night (situational attribution), to make an attribution, people use:, consistency information! Does ron trip over hermione"s feet at other dances: distinctiveness information! E. g. , does ron trip over other dance partners" feet: consensus information! Assume other respond the same way we do! Applies when we only have one instance of behaviour! People infer whether situational in uences are suf cient to explain the behaviour!