SOCL 3601 : Test 2
Document Summary
Attribution theory- premise that we judge people based on what we know about them. Our knowledge can come from experiences with other individuals or widely held stereotypes in our culture. If we only know one thing about a person, that one thing formes 100% of our judgement. The more we know, the less influence each thing has. The more we know, the better rounded picture we get about who this other person is. Implicit personality theory- talks about how we assume that members of certain social categories share common characteristics. Social categories are created for that specific purpose (telling us something about someone): causal attributions- buying that someone knew something or that something happened to someone. If good things happen through internal, we think it"s good. If it"s external, we don"t necessarily think it"s as good. Vice versa: the fundamental attribution error- when we judge ourselves as individuals differently than we judge other individuals.
