PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 43: Dispositional Attribution, Social Cognition, Fritz Heider

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

Document Summary

Chapter 43 social thinking: personality psychologists focus on the person. They study the personal traits and dynamics that explain why different people may act differently in a given situation, such as the ones willems faced: social psychologists focus on the situation. They study the social influences that explain why the same person will act differently in different situations. The fundamental attribution error: the tendency for observers, when analyzing another"s behaviour, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition, our social behaviour arises from our social cognition. Attitudes and actions: attitudes are feelings, often influenced by our beliefs that predispose our reactions to objects, people, and events, our attitudes affect our actions. Attitudes affect actions: persuasion efforts generally take two forms, peripheral route persuasion doesn"t engage systematic thinking, but does produce fast results as people respond to incidental cues, and make snap judgments.