PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Elaboration Likelihood Model, Rape Culture, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: clark

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Internal locus of control- you have a better sense of control. External locus of control- believe life happens to you/ fait. Vicarious learning-you can learn from other people getting rewarded or punished not just experiencing the reward/punishment. Perceived self-efficacy- what we think we can do. Thoughts, feelings and behavior are influenced by our immediate surroundings and can change our personality traits. The fundamental attribution error- how it works, cross cultural findings, self-serving bias. (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:449)e e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e(cid:859)s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior is (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of a trait. Constraints- unaware of situational constraints you make dispositional inferences, (psychological and physical) Inflated categorizations of behavior- (cid:858)i (cid:449)ould (cid:374)e(cid:448)er do that(cid:859), fail to full(cid:455) a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)t for power of situation. Unrealistic expectations of behavior- i would not argue so convincingly. Incomplete corrections of dispositional inferences- once we learn about situation we do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:272)orre(cid:272)t our attri(cid:271)utio(cid:374) Individuals from collectivist cultures- less likely to focus on situational vs. dispositional.