PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psy
4 Oct 2020
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Ultimately your actions would depend on your conclusion about the cause of his apparent generosity. It is essential that we predict other people"s actions reasonably well. We need to understand why they acted as they did in the present and the past. Important to have a good understanding of how various external or situational forces influence people"s behaviour. Attributions: casual judgments about why an event occurred and why someone behaved in a certain way. Attribution theories are models that attempt to delineate the processes underlying judgments of cause. Intuitive scientist: people often make casual judgments in a relatively scientific. Two possibilities: the movie is sad (external attribution) or friend is a sentimental person who cries easily at movies (an internal attribution) Systematically trying to figure out which attribution it was. We think back over all with a particular person, with a particular situation (or.
