PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Dissonance, Normative Social Influence, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Psychology 102: developmental, social, personality, and clinical psychology. Social psychology: scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another: conformity: wanting to be accepted, being the status quo, copying everyone else. Social thinking: how we think about others, especially when they do something unexpected. Attribution theory: we have a tendency to give casual explanations for someone"s behaviour: often by crediting either the situation or the person"s disposition. Fundamental attribution error: overestimate internal abilities, underestimate others. Effects of attribution: how we explain someone"s behaviour affects how we react to it. Self-serving bias: people take credit for success, deny responsibility for failure. Attitude: a belief and feeling that predisposes a person first to respond in a particular way to objects, other people, and events: our attitudes predict our behaviour. Imperfect predictors because other factors, including external situations (influence behaviour)
