PSYCH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Leon Festinger, Solomon Asch, Fundamental Attribution Error
Document Summary
Social psychology (how our behavior changes due to other people) Cognitive dissonance: experience when their behaviors are not inline with their beliefs or values. Reason cognitive consistency: we are motivated towards consistency: self-perception theory: look to actions to explain beliefs. Dwayne and derek example: primacy effect (if we hear positive first, they rate it positively and vise versa) Confirmation bias (looking for evidence to support belief) Correspondence bias- make dispositional attributions instead of situational. How we determine the causes behind other"s behaviors. Consensus: we look to others and what most people are doing. If it reflects our personality or environment/situation: low people internal, high people external. Distinctiveness: does the behavior occur in different situations: low internal, high(only happening in a particular situation) external. Consistency: does the behavior occur time after time in a particular situation: low external, high internal or external.
