PSYCH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Implicit Stereotype, Attribution Bias, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Social animals: we are designed to depend on each other through natural selection, we are also thinking social animals, most of what we think about is other people and ourselves. Le(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s grand truism: b=f(p,e) where b is behaviour (overt action), p is personal determinants (internal states/dispositions), e is environmental determinants (physical and social situations) Personal: individuals mental states, beliefs, feelings, motives, traits, emotions, variable across time. Environmental: all the factors that affect an individual from the outside, not from within. Traditional psychology emphasizes situational factors b=f(e), physical or social (interpersonal, organizational, cultural), personal factors largely irrelevant, largely based on the exact interaction you are having at that moment. Independent variable-> expose subjects to all conditions or random assignment to different ones. Dependant variable-> determine effects of specific situation on behaviour (smiling) Methods for research: manipulate some feature of external environment-> experimental. Methods for personality psychologist: measure a personality variable-> correlational. Predictor variable-> self-report questionnaire, rating scale, general observations (friendliness)