SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Representativeness Heuristic, Social Perception

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

Document Summary

Lecture 5: social perception and cognition social perception: constructing an understanding of the social world from the data we get through our senses - the processes by which we from impressions of other people traits and personalities. Attribution: the process of infringe the causes of a person"s behaviour. Dispositional: focus on internal states of the person who performed it. Covariation: attributing a behaviour to a factor that is: present when the behaviour occurs, absent when the behaviour fails to occur. Fundamental attribution error: overestimating the importance of personal factors and underestimating situational. ex. he failed the test bc he is stupid not bc it was a hard test. Attention bias: tendency to overestimate the causal impact of whomever or whatever we focus out attention on ex. Actor-observed effect: observers attribute actors behaviour to internal factors. Self serving bias: the tendency to attribute good outcomes with disposition and bad outcomes with situation ex.