PSYC100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stanford Prison Experiment, Fundamental Attribution Error, Implicit-Association Test

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Ly Agnes

Document Summary

Social psychology scieniic study of examining social context in terms of peoples" thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Thoughts, emoions, behaviors, and acions are afected by the presence of others. As a part of the social context, we form impressions and judgments about others. Categorizaion reduces the amount of speciic detail needed in the working memory, since the working memory and atenion is limited; looks at the shared common properies. Personal/disposiional atribuion internal characterisic: it is them; it is their fault (ex: homeless because she is lazy) Situaional atribuion external factor or event: it is out of their control (ex: homeless because of the bad economy) Fundamental atribuion error making an atribuion about others. Actor-observer discrepancy diference between what we atribute the behavior to: atribuion about others personal atribuion, atribuion about yourself situaional atribuion. Self-serving bias failures are due to situaional factors, successes are due to personal factors.