PSYO 1012 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Totalitarianism, Grater, Groupthink
18 Apr 2015
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Attributions: inferences made about the causes of other people"s behavior. Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to explain others" behavior in dispositional rather than situational terms. Self-serving bias: the tendency to make situational attributions for our failures but dispositional attributions for our successes. Blaming the victim: an attribution that places blame on the victim of a crime, accident or misfortune. Stereotypes: schemas of how people are likely to behave based simply on groups to which they belong. In-group/out-group bias: tendency to show positive feelings toward people who belong to the same group as we do, and negative feelings towards those in other groups. Out-group homogeneity: the tendency to see al members of an out-group as the same. Discrimination: negative behavior towards another based upon group membership. Prejudice: a biased, negative attitude based on individual"s group membership. Attitude: an individual"s favorable or unfavorable beliefs, feelings or actions toward an object, idea or person.
