PS102 Lecture Notes - Availability Heuristic, Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Dissonance
Document Summary
No illusory correlations (when 2 things are perceived as occurring together, but don"t) people over estimate the amount of times things co-occur: boring and accountant explains superstitions. Experimental group was given power to read resumes and control was not. Experimental group used stereotypes more often than those in the control group. Attributions- the ways that we explain our own behaviour and behaviours of others. Internal/external internal- we explain behaviour as internal personality external- explain behaviour. Stable/unstable stable- cause of the behaviour is permanent unstable- cause of the behaviour is temporary. Biases: reciprocity: we like those who like us. Types of love inversely related passionate: attraction, sex compassionate: trust and intimacy. 2: gottman- 4 horseman, criticism towards the partner, contempt (hostile humour, defensiveness, stonewalling (disengage, will very in strength- affects the resistant to change, accessibility- how available in your mind are the attitudes, ambivalence- positive vs. negative.
