SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Perception, Attribution Bias, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

Social perception and cognition how we make attributions for human behavior. Attribution is when we see behavior then infer backwards to the causes. It is trying to explain why people behave the way they do. Schemas, which are cognitive frameworks for interpreting the world are use. We often have biases and error when we try to attribute causes to behavior. We are all cognitive misers; this is someone who is tight with resources. People do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to e(cid:454)pe(cid:374)d a lot if (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e e(cid:374)e(cid:396)g(cid:455) i(cid:374) o(cid:396)de(cid:396) to u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)d something. This is (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374) a(cid:271)u(cid:374)da(cid:374)(cid:272)e of ti(cid:373)e. Social perception refers to constructing an understanding of the social world from the data we get through out senses. The p(cid:396)o(cid:272)esses (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:449)e fo(cid:396)(cid:373) i(cid:373)p(cid:396)essio(cid:374)s of othe(cid:396) peoples" t(cid:396)aits a(cid:374)d personalities. Att(cid:396)i(cid:271)utio(cid:374) (cid:396)efe(cid:396)s to the p(cid:396)o(cid:272)ess of i(cid:374)fe(cid:396)(cid:396)i(cid:374)g the (cid:272)auses of a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396).