PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Base Rate Fallacy, Donald Iii Of Scotland
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Overview: how we think about our social world, how we make judgments about the social world, how we explain the social world, expectations of the social world. Then used those schemas to form impressions of donald: explains how people viewing same event can have different perceptions of it through using different schemas. Automatic thinking- heuristic: availability heuristic, a mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgment on the ease with which they can bring something to mind. Information about the frequency of members of different categories in the population: people often don"t make use of base rate information, base rate fallacy i. Counterfactual thinking: mentally changing aspect of the past as a way of imagining what might have been a. Illusion of control or perceived control: self-serving beliefs, believing we have control, fully or partially, over events that we cannot, regression toward the average. Mood: mood strongly influences how we think about the social world, negative vs. positive.
