PSY220H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Dispositional Attribution, Observer-Expectancy Effect
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We judge events, informed by our intuition, by implicit rules that guide our snap person. We explain events by either attributing it to either the situation or to the person. We expect certain events and our expectation occasionally helps bring them about. Telling them he saved thousands of jewish lives warm and kind. We respond not to reality as it is but to reality as we construe it. Unattended stimuli can subtly influence how we interpret and recall events. Ex: watching scary movie can prime our thinking by activating emotions that cause us to think that furnace noises are a possible intruder. Ex: flashing the word bread on the screen (without realizing it) may prime participants to detect related words (ex: butter) faster than unrelated words. Much of our social information processing is automatic and happens without conscious awareness. Social perception in the eye of the beholder.
