PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes -Dispositional Attribution, Trait Theory, Collectivism
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Social psychology - is the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of. Disposition - that is, beliefs, values, personality trait, or abilities, whether real or individuals in social situations imagines. The failure to recognize the importance of situational influences on behavior together with the tendency to overemphasize the importance of dispositions, or traits, was labeled the fundamental attribution error. Channel factors to help explain why certain circumstances that appear unimportant on the surface can have great consequences for behavior, either facilitating or blocking it. Construal - people"s interpretation an difference about the stimuli or situations they confront. Prisoner"s dilemma - a situation involving payoffs to two people,who must decide whether to cooperate or defect . in the end,trust and cooperation lead to higher joint payoffs than mistrust and defection. Schema-a knowledge structure consisting of any organised body of stored information.
