PSCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fundamental Attribution Error, Attitude Change, Cognitive Dissonance
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Social perception (making sense of other people"s behavior) Definition: the process people go through to explain the causes of behavior. Definition: the behavior is due to characteristics of the person. Definition: the behavior is due to the aspects of the situation. Definition: the tendency to attribute the behavior of others to internal factors. Definition: attributing other"s behavior to personal factors and your own to situational factors. Definition: attributing your positive outcome to internal factors and negative outcomes to external factors. Getting a promotion (feeling proud of yourself) versus getting fired (getting mad at your boss) Definition: a quickly formed judgment about another individual. Definition: repeated exposure makes you more likely to view something positively. The first time you heard a tswift song, versus the 10th time. Definition: attitudes can be changed by either the content or by other irrelevant parts of the message. Definition: step-by-step evaluation of the content of a message.
