PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psych, Gestalt Psychology, Fundamental Attribution Error
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General variables of interest: aspects of personality that make people unique and different - individual differences. Predicting behaviour - stable, internal personality traits. General variables of interest: studies psychological processes people have in common that can be in uenced by the social world. Predicting behaviour - social situations (internal or external) are the deciding factor to predict behaviour. Social psychologists believe it is most important to understand individuals". What is a construal? the way in which people perceive and comprehend events. Construals in action - people generally fail to recognize that other people have different construals and interpretations of situations than they do. People believe their choices are more popular than they really are (ross etal 1977) Sandwich board example - student recruited to wear a board saying repent the end is nigh" - other students who either said yes or no thought that a majority of others would make the same decision.
