PSYCH 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic, Body Language
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Observations is first thing that comes to mind. A script is a preconception about a sequence of events likely to occur in a situation. Attribution theory: a group of theories that describe how people plan the causes of behaviour. Personal attribution: attribution to internal characteristics of the actor. Situational attribution: attribution to factors external to the author. People attribute behaviour to factors that are present when the behaviour occurs and absent when it does not. High: this person has behaved in the same way when in this situation in the past. Low: this person has not behaved in the same way when in this situation in the past. High: most people would behave in the same way in this situation. Low: few people would behave in the same way in this situation. Distinctiveness: does this person behave this way in other situations. High: this person would behave differently if the situation was just slightly different.
