PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Fundamental Attribution Error, Continental Drift
Document Summary
Focuses on how social situations can influence the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of an individual. Power of the situation is an important term this semester. Personality psychology: focuses on individual differences in characteristics patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving: e. g e(cid:454)tro(cid:448)ersio(cid:374), (cid:449)hat does it (cid:373)ea(cid:374) (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:455)ou"re e(cid:454)tro(cid:448)erted (cid:448)s. sh(cid:455) Focused on the individual; not so much focused on communities and groups, unless its their ability to impact the individual directly. Social psychology is really about the power of the situation. Reason that this is important is become often: Failure to recognize the importance of situation influences & tendency to overemphasize the importance of dispositions on behavior. This is so common that it has a name. Fundamental attribution error: we attri(cid:271)ute people"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour (cid:373)ore ofte(cid:374) tha(cid:374) (cid:374)ot to i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)al (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s and we forget about the social and contextual factors that are guiding their behavior and that can be a fundamental mistake. [clip] illustration of the power of the situation.
