PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Operant Conditioning, Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Dissonance
2 Nov 2018
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Document Summary
We are social creatures, meant to interact with people. Left alone in a room for the first 13 years of her life. Bottle fed, size of a 6 year old. We formed rapid and enduring first impressions, opinions of other people. When one characteristic or a small number of characteristics have a large impact on the overall perception. Tendency to generalize favorable or unfavorable first impression to unrelated details of personality. A judgement about the cause of a person"s behavior. A judgement assigning the cause of a person"s behavior to personal qualities or characteristics. Person cuts you off in traffic they"re a jerk: situational (external. A judgement assigning the cause of person"s behavior is the environment. Person cuts you off in traffic they"re late, their wife is in labor. The tendency to view behavior as the result of a disposition even when the behavior can be explained by the situation.
