PSYC 102 Midterm: Study Guide for Midterm 1
29 Jan 2012
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Psyc 102 - study guide for midterm 1 (ch. 17) Attribution judgments about the causes of our own and other people s behavior and outcomes. Personal attribution infer that people s characteristics cause their behavior. Situational attribution aspects of the situation causes a behavior. Fundamental attribution error under-estimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the role of personal factors when explaining other people s behavior (context) Self- serving bias tendency to make personal attributions for successes and situational attributions for failures. Primacy effect tendency to attach more importance to the initial information that we learn about a person. Recency effect giving greater weight to most recent information. Mental set readiness to perceive the world in a particular way. Schemas mental frameworks that help us organize and interpret information. Stereotype generalized belief about a group or category of people (type of schema)
