Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Tegmentum, Social Learning Theory, Castration

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

Document Summary

Behaviour in a social context: social psychology studies how we think about and perceive our social world, how other people influence our behaviour, 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 behaviour and outcomes, affect our behaviour and emotions. Winning we worked hard played good d, but losing ump blew the game for us: depressed people usually take too little credit for successes and too much credit for failures. Culture and attribution: culture affects how we perceive social world, ex. 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.