SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Undercover Cops, Cognitive Dissonance, Psych

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

Document Summary

Covariation is also able to lead to mistakes. Extremity the more extreme the effect of a behaviour, the more likely we are to make internal attributions. Discounting the more you know about environmental conditions surrounds a behaviour, the less likely you are to make internal attributions. Augmentation the strength of a facilitative force will be perceived as great if an event occurs in the presence of an inhibitory force (the opposite of discounting). A situational force that is inconsistent with behaviour leads to put more weight on the disposition. The tendency to reply up individual or dispositional explanation at the expense of situational factors is referred to as the : fundamental attribution, subtractive rule, self serving bias, scottish bias. Uses schemas to compare to prototypes, and how you determine if their characteristics fit an image or category. A lot of people gather stereotypes together. Types of schemas: group schemas, self schemas, and role schema, event schemas.