PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Social Perception, Fritz Heider, Controllability
12 Nov 2015
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Social perception: how we form impressions of and make inferences about other people. Naive psychology: theory that people practice a form of untrained psychology as they use cause and effect analyses to understand their word and other people"s behaviour: fritz heider. Psychology used to create casual theories to understand their world. People have to need to explain other people"s behaviour to understand motivation: expecting a favour in return. People are motivated to try to figure out why a person acted a given way so they can predict how they"ll act in the future. When people make casual attributions, they make a distinction between internal and external causes. Correspondent inference theory: people often believe that a person"s disposition. Covariation theory: theory that people determine that causes of a person"s behaviour by focusing on the factors that are present when a behaviour occurs and absent when it doesn"t occur: attention to consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency.
