Attribution Processing- Prejudice & Bias Flashcards
What determines whether we attribute behavior to internal vs external causes:
- consistency- is this behavior consistent with previous behavior?
- distinctiveness- is this behavior towards everyone or just you?
- consensus- is this behavior shared with everyone around you?
Attribution theory
Attempts to explain how individuals view behavior of themselves and others
Dispositional attribution
When the individual attribute behavior to internal causes: mood, attitude, ability or personality
Situational attribution
Individual attribute behavior to external causes
Fundamental attribution error
When our analysis of someones behavior is incorrect.
When:
the impact of the situation is underestimated and
the impact of personality is overestimated.
Assumption of the people are how they act leads to
Fundamental attribution error
Tendency to
1- blame our actions on the situations and
2- balme the action of others on personalities
1- Fundamental attribution error
2- Actor-observor bias
Tendency to attribute successes to ourselves and failures to others or the environment
Self-serving bias
Halo effect
Tendency to believe that people have inherintly good/bad natures rather than looking at individual characteristic
Physical attractiveness stereotype is an example of
Halo effect
( different personality and characteristics is attributed to them simply because of how they are presenting themselves)
Involves the understanding of others in our social world: what are they thinking of me?
Social perception
The ability of the brian to store and process information regarding social perception
Social cognition
Assesment of verbal and non-verbal cues shape our ———- .
Social perception
Occurs when we assume everyone else agrees with us
False consensus
Occurs when we assume others have the same beleifs as we do
Projection bias
Self-perception theory
How do you see yourself?
People develop their own perception by observing themselves, interacting with others and behaving in different circumstances.
They way we perceive ourselves impacts how we perceive others.
