PSY220H1 Chapter 4: CH4 Textbook Notes
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Chapter 4 social perception: perceiving the self and others. Attributions: judgments about why an event occurred or why someone behaved in a certain way, causal judgments. Harold kelly suggested that people behave as intuitive scientists in testing everyday causal questions. Make repeated observations and determine whether certain events or responses reliably occur under certain conditions. Used when we have multiple observations of several individuals across several settings. Covariation model of attribution: we make causal judgments by determining whether a particular behaviour correlated with a person, situation, or some combination of both. Tendency to assume that other people share our attitudes and behaviours to a greater extent than is actually the case. One reason for the bias is that we tend to interact with other people who agree with us. They aren"t representative of the general population but we don"t always recognize this fact. Another reason is that we want to believe that others agree with us.
