Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Out-Group Homogeneity, Fundamental Attribution Error, Stereotype Threat

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Michael Atkinson

Document Summary

Attribution: judgments about the causes of our own and other people"s behavior and outcome. Personal attrubition: people"s behavior is caused by their characteristics. Distinctiveness: does she only hate this course of all of hers. Consensus: do other people also hate the course. Fundamental attribution error: we underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the role of personal factors when explaining behavior. More likely to make personal attributes if you watch yourself on tape rather than experience the situation. Self-serving bias: making relatively more personal attributions for successes and more situational attributions for failures. More individualistic the society, the more they look at personal factors to determine behavior. Chinese are collectivists so they take more responsibility for failures and are more modest. Holistic thinkers (koreans etc. ) take more factors into consideration before they create attribution. Mental frameworks that help organize and store information. Self-fulfilling prophecies: expectations of someone else, lead them to act a certain way that you originally expected.