PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Blackboard, Verbal Behavior, Fundamental Attribution Error
13 Apr 2012
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Thin slices: show people images of another person, and have people decide random chacteristics about them. Research has found that we"re able to accurately judge something"s and extract certain infos from small exposures of an individual. Context: behaviour on its own doesn"t tell us about somebody, the behave in the context of the environment gives us a picture of the individual. Schemas: set of expectations that you have for a situation, person or thing. Attribution: an explanation for behaviour that you observe. Attribute her behaviour to her personality, an attitude, values or beliefs. Correspondents bias: bias that refers to when we"re trying to attribute the behaviour of other people. We tend to attribute it to internal things. >fundamental attribution error: correspondents bias and when you"re perceiving yourself, and for our own behaviour you make external attributions. Tendency to overestimate the role of information that grabs our attention.
