PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Prison Reform, Social Facilitation, Depersonalization

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1101
• Professor: Frazier

Document Summary

0 how we think in relation to other people. 0 how other people influence not only our thinking but our actions: 0 how we treat each other, relate to each other. 0 the study of how we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world. 0 attribution: a conclusion about the cause of an observed behavior/event. 0 attribution theory: we explain others" behavior with two types of attributions: situational attribution (factors outside the person doing the action, such as peer pressure), or, dispositional attribution (the person"s stable, enduring traits, personality, ability, emotions) 0 you are driving down the highway and someone driving next to you speeds up and cuts you off. How we explain someone"s behavior affects how we react to it. 0 tendency to attribute other people"s behavior to their dispositions, and less likely to consider situational causes.