Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Stereotype Threat, Cognitive Dissonance, Realistic Conflict Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Psychology 1000 chapter 13 notes (behaviour in a social context) Attributions are judgments about the causes of our own and other people"s behaviour and outcomes: personal attributions infer that people"s behaviour is cause by their characteristics, situational attributions infer that aspects of the situation cause a behaviour. 3 types of information determine the type of attribution people make: When all 3 are high, people make a situational attribution: consistency, distinctiveness, consensus. Fundamental attribution errors is a tendency to underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the role of personal factors when explaining other people"s behaviour. Self-serving bias is the tendency to make related more personal attributions for success and situational attributions for failure: strength of self-serving biases depends on various factors. A primacy effect is a tendency to attach more significance to the initial information we learn about a person. A stereotype is a generalized belief about a group or a category of people.