PSYCH 360 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Informed Consent, Hindsight Bias, Representativeness Heuristic
3 Oct 2017
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Meanwhile, observers are typically focused on the actor or the actor"s behavior. People tend to make attributions to potential causes that are perceptually salient. Actors also have more information because they know what they were thinking and observers can only get the intentions. Attribution theory: an umbrella term used to describe the set of theoretical accounts of how people assign causes to the events around them and the effects that peoples casual assessments have. Availability heuristic: (be sure you can distinguish it from representativeness heuristic) The process whereby judgements of frequency or probability are based on how readily pertinent instances come to mind. The tendency to test a proposition by searching for evidence that would support it. Explicit attitudes and beliefs that we are aware of and may become implicit overtime. Automatic processing people often react quickly to frightening situations so that they can take immediate actions to save themselves from dangers if necessary.
