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PSY100H1 Chapter 15: PSY100CHAPTER15

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10 Apr 2011
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Psychology
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PSY100H1
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Michael Inzlicht

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Fundamental attribution error - tendency to overemphasize personal factors and underestimate situational factors in explaining behaviour. We attribute other"s behaviours to their personalities. Fail to consider the situation people are in and it"s affect on their behaviours. Social psychology - concerned with how others influence the way a person thinks, feels, acts. A great deal of mental activity occurs automatically and without conscious awareness or intent - evaluate people and objects we encounter. Notion of self - hard to define - self-concept - everything you know about yourself - guides our attention to information that is relevant to us and that helps us to adjust to the environment. Self as the knower (i) subject doing thinking, feeling, acting, choosing planning - state of self-awareness - when i thinks about me self as the object that is known (me) Objective self-awareness - leads people to act in accordance with their personal values and beliefs.

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