Psychology 1000 Chapter 13: Chapter 13 Notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Chapter 13 behaviour in a social context. Social psychology studies how we think about and perceive our social world, how other people influence our behavior, and how we behave toward other people. Attribution: perceiving the causes of behaviour: attributions: judgements about the causes of our own and other people"s behavior and outcomes, affect our behavior and emotions. Winning we worked hard played good d, but losing ump blew the: depressed people usually take too little credit for successes and too much credit for game for us failures. Culture and attribution: culture affects how we perceive social world. Tendency to attribute other people"s behaviour to personal factors reflects a. Westernized emphasis on individualism; india attributes to situational (collectivistic: culture also influences attributions for our own behaviour, ex. Initial info influences how we shape subsequent info: maybe evaluating stimuli quickly was adaptive for survival (evolutionary) ex.