Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Authoritarian Personality, Stanford Prison Experiment, Groupthink

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Social psychology- scientific study of how individuals behave, think, and feel in social situations. In the presence (actual or implied) of others. Social role- born into it; established by society. Attribution- judgements about the causes of our own and other people"s behaviour and outcomes. Fundamental attribution error- in judging the cause of other"s behaviour, If you assume that katie has a very aggressive personality, you have committed the error. We underestimate the importance of situational factors, and. Self-serving bias - when judging the cause of our own behavior, We overestimate the importance of situational factors in failures. We overestimate the importance of internal factors in successes. Primacy effects our tendency to attach more importance to the first information that we learn about a person. Asch study (1946) - reverse order of adjectives. 1st impressions important in developing the initial schema. The schema then acts as a filter for incoming information.