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
