PSY270H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Normative Social Influence, Solomon Asch, Cognitive Dissonance
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Unit 14 social psychology notes (these go with ch. 16 of psychology by david myers with a different page number system. The same concepts are on the powerpoint review and the ch. 16 study guide. : social thinking, attributing behavior to persons or to situations 644, attribution theory fritz heider. The cause of behavior is either situational (surrounding environment) or dispositional (inside/part of you: fundamental attribution error (fae) basing your attribution on only one of the two causes. Underestimating the situation and overestimating the personal factors. Example: he"s poor because he"s lazy. (maybe the situation of a bad economy keeps him jobless) Fae thinking is more likely to happen when we don"t know the person: attribution sources: harold kelley, consensus, consistency, distinctiveness. Judgments about people have consequences socially, economically, politically at the individual level, the larger group and even nationally. B. attitudes and actions: attitude: beliefs and feelings predisposing us to people and objects.
