PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Social Influence, Copycat Crime, Stanley Milgram
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Explaining behavior: attribution, the process we go through to explain the causes of behavior, attributions are important because they help us to, understand someone"s behavior, predict someone"s future behavior, control the situation if it should occur again. Our attributions guide our behavior: negative behavior, situational attribution. Maybe that driver is ill. : tolerant reaction. Proceed cautiously, allow driver a wide berth: negative behavior, dispositional attribution. Other potential, external reasons: little sleep. Illness: culture differences in attributing behavior (eastern vs. western culture, blaming the victim, when we try to explain uncomfortable events (murders, suicide, etc. ) we tend to look for internal causes increases. She was raped because she was out jogging at night : allows us to maintain our belief in a just world . Attitudes environment: the tendency to think, feel, or act positively or negatively towards objects in our, attitudes seen as having three components, cognitive component. What do you think about a particular topic: emotional, or affective, component.
