PSY 1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 52: Fundamental Attribution Error
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>> multinational surveys show that age differences in life satisfaction are trivial kohlberg"s theory of moral development. >> moral reasoning is based on external rewards and punishments conventional. >> laws & rules are upheld simply because they are laws & rules post-conventional. Topic: social development :: kohlberg"s theory of moral reasoning. >> reasoning based on personal moral standards social psychology. >> scientific study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another attribution theory. >> tendency to give a casual explanation for someone"s behavior, often by crediting either the situation or the person"s disposition. ***we usually do this more when something is negative, because we want to try to figure out why somebody would do that. ***we do it more when somebody does something that is unexpected fundamental attribution error. >> tendency for observers, when analyzing another"s behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition attitude.
