PSYCH 360 Lecture Notes - Howard Dean, Alex Trebek, Harold Kelley
16 Feb 2013
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Central traits (some are more important than others). Independent variable: trait description used (warm or cold) Primacy effect: jones (1968, test of intellectual ability, independent variable: order of right/wrong questions, dependent variable: intelligence rating, results: ratings were higher when correct answers came mainly from first half (earlier information) When someone rushes, tailgates you and cuts you off you immediately think, What an asshole/jerk this is considered an attribution. Causal attribution is an assumption about why a person acted the way he/she did. Two major kinds of attributions: dispositional, something about the person himself made him act that way, situational, something about the situation made the person act that way. Tendency to underestimate situational factors and overestimate dispositional factors. Independent variable one: speech was anti or pro castro. Independent variable two: debater"s position was chosen/assigned. Dependent variable: estimate or debater"s actual support for castro. Dependent variable: ratings of general knowledge of participants by observes as well as by participants themselves.
