PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Fundamental Attribution Error, Representativeness Heuristic, Rush Hour
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Experience allows you to make automatic judgments to categorize the personality and behaviour of others, which in turn can influence how you judge your own actions and beliefs. Conscious and unconscious judgments you make lead to social perceptions which influence how you interpret your behaviour and the behaviours of individuals and groups. For every observable behaviours, there"s many motivating factors. Expected uncommon behaviour gives us more info. Intention of the behaviour corporate or sister to stop smoking. Overestimate the role of dispositional factors and underestimate the role of situational factors. Driver cuts you off in rush hour traffic, you will think terrible driver, not. Jones found it overly provocative and misleading, wished he thought of it first . Consider the situational factors for your own behaviour. Difference in perception of behaviour and that of others: actor-observer effect . Miller"s experiment indians attribute more to situational factors as they age, while.
