Psychology 1000 Chapter 13: Chapter 13-Notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Attributions: judgments about the causes of out own and other people"s behavior. Personal (internal) attributions: infer that people"s behavior is caused by their characteristics. Situational (external) attributions: infer that aspects of the situation cause a behavior. Three types of information determine the attribution we make: consistency, distinctiveness, and consensus: when these are all high, we make a situational attribution, when consistency is high and the others are low, we make a personal attribution. Fundamental attribution error: we underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the role of personal factors when explaining other people"s behavior. Self-serving bias: making more personal attributions for successes and more situational attributions for failures. North america shows greater tendency to make personal attributions for other people"s behavior. Primacy effect: tendency to attach more importance on the first information we learn about a person. Recency effects: giving greater weight to the most recent information.