PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Implicit-Association Test, Fundamental Attribution Error, Illusory Correlation
30 Jan 2018
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Harry harlow: social isolation experiment on monkeys. Poor attempt in rehabilitation even after the experiment: the monkeys showed abusive behaviour. Subject is separated into questioner and contestant. The contestant and the third-observer party both agreed that the questioner is more intelligent. Exhibit self-serving bias with regard to our success and failures. Self-serving bias: view success as reflecting our true abilities and failures as a flukes f circumstance. Given speeches of either pro-castro or anti-castro. The subject were also told the debater were either assigned or voluntary with their stands. Surprisingly, subject reported that in both case, the debater is reflecting their true feeling. Human have trouble discounting the behaviour of others. Bias to a good" evaluation of ourselves. Relative difference in attributions about one"s own versus others behaviour. Representative heuristics: we tend to judge a sample (or a particular outcome)to be likely to occur if it is similar to the population from which it was selected.
