PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dispositional Attribution, Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Perception
19 Mar 2013
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Social perception how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people. Heider"s theory that people practise a form of untrained psychology as they use cause and effect analyses to understand their world and other people"s behaviour. External attribution seeing the behaviour as caused by something external to the person who performs the behaviour. Internal attribution refers to whether the person"s behaviour is caused by personal factors, such as traits, ability, effort, or personality. Correspondent inference theory the theory that people infer whether a person"s behaviour is caused by the person"s internal disposition by looking at various factors related to the person"s action. Another job pays low, is located in the middle of nowhere but has a ski mountain so you assume that person took the job because they like to ski. Consistency information about whether a person"s behaviour toward a given stimulus is the same across time.
