PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Shooting Of Amadou Diallo, Symbolic Racism, Implicit Stereotype

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Social psychology: the scientific study of the effects of social and cognitive processes on the way individuals perceive, influence, and relate to others. The halo effect someone that has consistent traits. 2005 1 sex judgments & election outcomes. Ratings of competence predicted the actual outcome based on 1 second. Office spaces, bedrooms say a lot about personalities. Most explanations we make on people"s behaviours are based on disposition (their personal traits/values) as supposed to the situation. Attributions: people"s causal explanations for why events or actions occur. Personal attributions: explanations that refer to internal characteristics such as abilities, traits, moods, and effort. Situational attributions: explanations that refer to external events, such as weather, luck, accidents, or the actions of others. The fundamental attribution error: the tendency for people to overemphasize personal factors and underestimate situational factors in explaining the behaviour of others.