Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fritz Heider, Cognitive Dissonance, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Chapter 13- behaviour in a social context: social psychology- scientific study of how individuals behave, think, & feel in social situations, attributions judgments about the causes of behaviour and outcomes. Culture and attribution: cultural influences affect attributions, participants from india make more situational attributions, and americans make more personal attributions. The schema then acts as a filter for incoming information: stereotype generalized beliefs about a group or category of people (type of schema) Origin of stereotypes: cognitive miser theory- idea that we have limited cognitive resources so any device that releases cognitive resources will be used often, kernel of truth hypothesis- stereotypes may stem from some real fact that gets overgeneralized. No relation between general attitude toward religion and specific religious: theory of cognitive dissonance people strive for consistency in their cognitions behaviours, but general index of religious behaviours is correlated with general attitudes.