PSY-0013 Lecture Notes - Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Perception, George Bernard Shaw
19 Feb 2014
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Fundamental attribution error ascribing negative consequences to personality causes rather than situational causes. Quiz show contestant study viewers believed questioners (who obviously knew the answer) to be smarter than the contestants. Target, first impressions, situations (behavioral scripts), attributions (explanation) Automatic first step: first impressions, personal attributions. Effortful second step: situations stimulus attributions. Answer these questions: name of think of a female-dominated profession. (nursing, name a type of building that contains many beds. (hospital, name a reason you may miss class this semester. (sickness, job interviews) Image of a doctor in previous slide. (priming) Priming tendency for recently used or perceived words or ideas to come to mind easily and influence the interpretation of new information. Participants first completed a task they thought was cognitive word scrambling. Then as ps go to turn in the form, confederate student engaged the experimenter for as long as it took until ps interrupted.
