PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fundamental Attribution Error, Hindsight Bias, Construals
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Social psychology the study of social processes, how the presence of others affects the way we think, feel & behave, social situations can be real or imagined. Goal of social psychology is to explain and predict behaviour. Social focuses on how social situations can influence the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of individuals. Personality focuses on how differences between individuals influence thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Sociology focuses on behaviour of communities and groups, not individuals. Power of the situation situations can often determine behaviour despite individual differences. Milgram"s study of obedience participants were instructed to shock other participants when he answered incorrectly on a test, 62. 5% of participants went all the way. No help to people in need when in a hurry (90% didn"t, but when not in a hurry, 60% helped) Fundamental attribution error: tendency to overestimate the role of personality and to underestimate the role of situations when explaining other people"s behaviour.
