PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cognitive Dissonance, Fundamental Attribution Error, Dispositional Attribution
8 Apr 2013
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Attribution- conclusion about cause of observed behavior. Situational attributions- factors outside person are causing action. Disposition attribution- person"s stable enduring traits, personality, causing action. When we overestimate dispositional influences and underestimate situational influenced on other"s behavior. It is fundamental, particularly in north america: more likely to respond negatively to others (eg/ irritability) less likely to respond positively to others (eg/ tolerance) Alert to potential rewards, costs, threats, in the situation. Help organize information: know what to pay attnention to, remember, recall, more efficient to understand info, more likely to be biased. Pre-measured attitude towards candidate jimmy carter vs ronald reagan favourable to carble, favourable to reagan, undecided. Richard lapiere travelling in us with chinese couple, visiting hotels. Assumption that private beliefs determine public behavior. Omits that people don"t live in social vacuum. Doesn"t mean weak willpower, shows we have acquired motive thru situatinal influences also shape behavior social learning.
