PSYCH 2C03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fundamental Attribution Error, Mirror Neuron
8 Dec 2016
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3:45 pm: social perception - the study of how we form impressions of other people and make inferences about them. Mirror neurons responds when someone repeats an action you performed. Same part of the brain activates when we feel an emotion and when another person feels the same emotion. 6 main emotions (fear, anger, disgust, surprise, sadness, happiness) Subsequently added (contempt, pride, embarrassment, anxiety, shame, pain and guilt) Collectivist cultures are encouraged to show less emotion in order to preserve group harmony. Culture and implicit personality theories: vary from culture to culture because it is a passed on set of ideas from generation to. Causal attribution: answering the why question: attribution theory - the study of how people explain the causes of their own and other people"s behaviour. Internal attribution if the consensus and distinctiveness are low but consistency is high. External attribution if all three are high.
