PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fundamental Attribution Error, Dispositional Attribution, Social Perception
29 May 2013
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Social perception: how people form impressions of and make inference about other people. We aren"t very accurate at assessing the attributions to a person"s behavior. Individualistic cultures sometimes focus too much on dispositional factors. While ignoring or minimizing the often considerable influence of the situation: heider"s theory of na ve psychology. Na ve psychology: heider"s theory that people practice a form of untrained psychology as they use cause and effect analyses to understand their world and other people"s behavior. External attributions: seeing the behavior as caused by something external to the person who performs the behavior. Internal attributions: refers to whether the person"s behavior is caused by personal factors, such as traits, ability, effort or personality: jones and davis"s theory of correspondent inference. Correspondent inference theory: the theory that people infer whether a person"s behavior is caused by the person"s internal disposition by looking at various factors related to the person"s action.
