PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fundamental Attribution Error, Dispositional Attribution, Ingroups And Outgroups
29 Oct 2016
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Psych 202 - lecture 10 - forming impressions (10/12/16) Attribution - inference about cause of person"s behavior. Situational attribution - external situation as cause for someone"s behavior. Dispositional attribution - attribute someone"s internal disposition as cause for behavior. Fundamental attribution error - overestimating influence of personal traits (dispositional attributes) and underestimating influence of situation. Actor-observer effect: making situation attributions to own behaviors while making dispositional attributions for another"s identical behaviors. Aware of situation in our own behavior, unaware of situation in other"s behavior. Three types of information influences dispositional or situational attribution: Consensus behavior - someone behaves same way you or others would behave in same place -- situational attribution. Someone yelling at an airline ticket agent might seem dispositional because you normally wouldn"t yell at airline ticket agents. Consistency information - person"s behavior varies from time to time. Someone yelling at airline ticket agent could seem angry all the time if this is the only time you see them.
