PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Tachycardia, Ultimate Attribution Error
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Emblems gestures that have well-understood meaning and widely accepted within a culture. Communicates a meaning or phrase that everybody understands. Thin slices the attributional power of brief exposure to others. Accurate at detecting other people"s personality traits and unobservable demographic characteristics from very quick brief exposure. Context: provides additional input, can completely change attribution. Schemas: what you expect is what you get. Attribution explanation for an observed behaviour of a social object. We make attributions for other people"s behaviour instantaneously: attributions are like pattern matching. Attribution theory the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people"s behaviour. Attributing a person"s behaviour to something intrinsic to that person (personality, disposition, attitude, character) E. g. satisfied marriages make more internal attributions for the partner"s positive behaviour and external attributions for negative behaviour: external attributions. Attributing a person"s behaviour to something about the situation in which the behaviour occurred.
