PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fundamental Attribution Error, Dispositional Attribution, Fidel Castro
28 Mar 2014
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Describe findings from research on how we see other people and interpret their behavior. Social perception: how people form impressions of and make inference about other people. Four major theories that describe how we think about why people engage in particular types of behavior. This idea is based on three principles: people have the need to explain the cause of other ppl"s behavior in order to understand their motivation. External attributions: see the behavior as caused by something external to the person performing the behavior (related to something about the situation) Internal attributions: see the person"s behavior as caused by personal factors (specific to the person, like traits, ability, effort, personality); dispositional attribution. Correspondent inference theory: the theory that ppl infer whether a person"s behavior is caused by the person"s internal disposition by looking at various factors related to the person"s actions: e. g.
