PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Simon Hurt, Illusory Correlation
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We have conscious and unconscious memory: unconscious doesn(cid:495)t pay attention to what we think our consciousness. Social perception errors: the fundamental attribution error and we have no idea we are making a perception error. If i tell myself i hope i example, he believed he was actually sick, when really the doctor hurt his. So you will pay attention and find info to everything that supports your belief. Illusions of control because he made himself believe he had a cold: overconfidence and statistics, regression towards the average. The fundamental attribution error: the tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and compared to paying attention to things that doesn(cid:495)t support what we belief. Its expedient and efficient, its easier to judge someone: when people explain their own behavior they typically are giving reasons discerned by objective or external observers, (image on slide)- based on how they appear to us.
