PSY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Dissonance, Social Loafing
Document Summary
Generally explicit attitudes predict deliberate behaviors and implicit attitudes predict spontaneous behaviors. Generally people monitor non-verbal behaviors over verbal ones. Could mean low explicit and high implicit. Often there is no relation between the two. Unfriendly, nonverbal behaviors exhibited- white people with a high implicit. Attribution: process of explaining behavior of one"s self to others. Trial attribution: cause of behavior attributed to internal factors like personality. Situational attribution: cause of behavior attributed to external factors (delays actions of others or situations) Fundamental attribution error (fea): overestimated influence of internal factors in determining others behavior. Actor/observer: the tendency to make fae when judging others while less likely to do so when attributions about one"s self. Self-serving bias: the tendency to make attributions that preserve one"s own self-esteem. Persuasion: process in which someone want to change beliefs, opinions, and position of another person by argument. Compliance: changing behavior as result of others directing for change.
