PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Group Decision-Making, Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Learning Theory
30 Nov 2016
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Degree of choice: how freely was choice made. How behaviour can be attributed to disposition or situation. Overvaluing dispositional factors and undervaluing situational factors. Actor observer effect: actors more aware of situational factors. Self serving bias: above average effect: situation factors for failures, dispositional for successes. False consensus effect: makes us overestimate how much others agree with us. Illusory correlation: belief two variables are related without evidence. We like those who like us back, especially when we have low self esteem. In-group: positive attitude, heterogeneity: heterogeneity: easier to tell differences between individuals. Audience: group of people watching an individual perform task. Social facilitation: presence of co-actors or audience increases performance for simple/familiar tasks: presence of others can hinder performance for complex/unfamiliar tasks. Social learning theory: learn appropriate behaviours by modeling and imitating behaviour of others. Bobo doll experiment: children who watched violence more likely to act violently. Norm formation: leads to convergence in behaviour, even in presence of outliers.
