PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Basking In Reflected Glory, Cognitive Dissonance, Optimism Bias

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Attributions: explanations for the causes of one(cid:859)s own and other(cid:859)s behavior. Bystander effect (5steps: notice what is happening, interprets as emergency, assuming personal responsibility, knowledge to help, making decision to involved. Diffusion of responsibility: the tendency for witness or bystanders to assume that someone else will intervene. If the person behaves this regularly, consistency is high. If most people behave in the same way, consensus is high. If the person reacts differently in other situations, distinctiveness is high: heuristics (common sense): short-cut. Representative: a mental short cut used to judge membership in a group based on a typical example or prototype ( ) of that group. Availability: a mental short cut used to judge the likelihood or frequency of events based on info available in memory. Initial categorization: occurs immediately upon perceiving a person. An individual makes automatic judgement based on physical characteristics and obvious social categories.