Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Dissonance, Fundamental Attribution Error, Normative Social Influence

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Behaviour: date is checking cell phone, texting, looking around the restaurant and seems to not be listening to your stories. Explanation of the cause of a person"s behaviour (including our own) Attribution theory: description of how we go about explaining the causes of people"s behaviour: how did we decide between options a) through d) *focus is not on the actual cause but rather how we decide what we think is the cause: how did we go about forming our opinions about the cause of her behaviour. The inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about that person. Some sort of internal trait of the person. Effort points out that internal attributes don"t have to be stable permanent traits. People can change level of effort still an internal attribution. Inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something outside the person. Something in the environment or situation that the person is in.