Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Out-Group Homogeneity, Stanford Prison Experiment, Cognitive Dissonance

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

Document Summary

Scientific study of how individuals behave, think, and feel in social situations: ex: in the presence (actual or implied) of others. Social role: born into it; established by society: ex: role of a daughter to a mother. Achieved role: established by the person: ex: becoming a friend to someone. Attributions judgments about the causes of behaviour and outcomes. Fritz heider maintained that attempts to understand behaviour involve different types of attribution. Personal attribution people"s behaviour is caused by their characteristics. Situational attribution aspects of the situation cause behaviour. Three types of information determine attribution we make. Consistency (is the decision made always consistent) Distinctiveness (is the decision distinct to a situation, or often made) When these three are higher, the decision made is a situational attribution. We underestimate the importance of situational factors and overestimate the importance of internal factors. When judging the cause of our own behaviour.