Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Prosocial Behavior, Group Polarization, Realistic Conflict Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Attributions judgments about the causes of behavior and outcomes. Situational attribution maintained that attempts to understand behavior involve different types of attribution people"s behavior is caused by their characteristics aspects of the situation cause behavior. Three types of information determine attribution we make: when these three are higher, the decision made is a situational attribution. Participants from india make more situational attributions, and americans make more personal attributions. Primacy effect tendency to attach more importance to the initial information that we learn about a person. Self-fulfilling prophecy generalized beliefs about a group or category of people (type of schema) occurs when people"s erroneous expectations lead them to act toward others in a way that brings about the expected behaviors, thereby confirming the original impression. Attitude a positive or negative evaluative reaction toward a stimulus. Come from conditioning, social learning, and direct experience.