PSYC 102 Chapter Notes -Eg White, Amygdala, Out-Group Homogeneity
10 Dec 2012
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Chapter 13: social thinking/perception, social influence, social relation. Attribution: judgements about cause of our own and other people"s behaviour and outcomes. Personal attributions: infer that people"s behaviour is caused by their characteristics: eg i got an a because i am smart. Situational attributions: the situation cased a behaviour: eg i got an a because the test was easy. If all is high, then we make situational attribution (course is hard), , if only consistency is high, we make personal attribution (kim is overly critical or hates school) Fundamental attribution error: we underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the role of personal factors when explaining people"s behaviour. Eg when we hear people have debates, we think they agree to their topic, while many times they are forced to debate for one side. Self-serving bias: we use it when explaining own behaviour more personal attribution for success, more situational attribution for failures.
