PSY100H1 Chapter 15: Psy100-Chapter 15.doc

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: doldeman

Document Summary

Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to overemphasize personal factors and underestimate situational factors in explaining behaviour. Social psychology: concerned with how people influence other people"s thoughts, feelings and actions. We tend to vastly underestimate the power of situations in shaping both our own and other people"s behaviour. Great deal of mental activity occurs automatically and without conscious awareness or intent. Self-concept: the full store of knowledge that people have about themselves (likely to mention characteristics that are distinctive) The self includes mental representation of personal experience, thought processes, physical body, and conscious experience. Self-awareness: a state in which the sense of self is the object of attention, occurs when i thinks about me . Highly dependent on development of frontal lobes: people with damage to frontal lobes are minimally self-reflective. Have distortions in how they process info about the self. Objective self-awareness: that self awareness leads people to act in accordance with their personal values and beliefs.