PS102 Lecture 19: Social Psychology – Tuesday March 22, 2016
Document Summary
Strength depends on psychological state: e. g. depressed people = more personal attributions for failures. Cognitive explanation: have more information about ourselves, we are background" situation stands out. Is error inevitable: with time to reflect error is reduced. Collectivist cultures: more responsibility for failures, east asians may have more complex, holistic views of behavioural causes. Men tend to attribute success to their abilities and intelligence: attribute success to internal causes. Women tend to attribute success to hard work, luck, or claiming a task was easy and therefore allowed for success: attribute success to external causes. Attitudes: relatively stable and enduring evaluations of things and people. 3 components of attitudes: affective: how we feel toward an object, behavioural: how we behave toward an object, cognitive: what we believe about an object. Prejudice can exist without discrimination, and discrimination can exist without prejudice.
