PSY 2110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intentionality, Suggestibility, Mindset

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: Daniel Bentley

Document Summary

Naive scientist: view of personality that people are like little naive scientists, who sees things through their own particular lens, creating their own experiments and testing hypothesis. Interested in the in uence of the social situation on thoughts and behaviours: the experiment: read out personality adjectives to students and instructed them to form an impression of the person (target) Two identical lists with one differing word: warm and cold changed impressions a lot. Correspondance bias: the proposed tendency to infer a personal disposition corresponding to observed behaviour even when the behaviour was determined by the situation, tendency to overestimate personal causes and underestimate situational ones. Correspondence in uence theory: how do we work out why someone chooses one action over another, work out why actions are preformed by comparing: The effects of the selected action with those of alternative unselected actions. Taking into account their relative perceived desirability: determine intentionality through analysis of non-common effects, and correspondence bias.