PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Miser, Multiple Choice, Fidel Castro
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Why: everybody wants to understand why things happen the way they do. Control- the more people can predict/understand the more in control we feel. Affect (feelings) john was late for our date because . I"m not good at this vs i just didn"t study enough. Impression of others these people are poor because . Attributions do matter whether or not they are correct because we take action based on this. Something about the person is the cause- an attitude, a preference, a disposition: external attributions. Something about the situation is the cause- most people would react this way. Jones and davis: correspondent inference theory: note: dates and names don"t matter on tests, correspondent inferences. We tend to make inferences that people"s behaviours correspond to their internal states. Note: internal inference and dispositional inference mean the same thing. Spontaneous trait inference takes 1/10 0f a second: non-correspondent inferences.
