Psychology 1000 Lecture : Psychology Chapter 13 Full Review.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Attributions: judgments about the causes of our own and other people"s behavior and outcomes. Infer that people"s behavior is caused by their characteristics. My a on the test reflects my high ability . Infer that aspects of the situation cause a behavior. I received an a because the test was easy . There are three types of information determine the attribution we make: Fundamental attribution error: we underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the role of personal factors when explaining other people"s behavior. When it comes to explaining our own behavior, we tend to protect our self-esteem by displaying a self-serving bias: making relatively more personal attributions for successes and more situational attributions for failures. Many studies suggest that the tendency to attribute other people"s behavior to personal factors reflects a westernized emphasis on individualism. Refers to our tendency to attach more importance to the initial information that we learn about a person.