PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Fundamental Attribution Error, Stanford Prison Experiment, Leon Festinger

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

A scienti c study of how the presence of others, real or imagined, in uence and affect us: social thinking, attributions. The process by which we infer the causes of behaviours. The actual explanation we offer for the cause of behaviours. We tend to fall for the fundamental attribution error. When we are attempting to explain other peoples behaviour, we tend to use dispositional factors for the cause. we over estimate the in uence of dispositional factors and underestimate situational factors. When we are explaining our own behaviours. When we are explaining behaviours of people we know very well. When we put ourselves in other peoples shoes. Determine how you think and feel: attitudes and actions. A learned predisposition to evaluate something or someone in a speci c way. There could be 3 components to attitudes: Attitudes do guide actions, however, people do not always behave in line with their attitudes.