Behaviour In A social Context Flashcards
Attributions
Judgements about causes of our own and other people’s behavior and outcomes
Internal Attributions
Peoples behavior is caused by their characteristics
Situational Attributions
Aspects of situation cause behavior
- consistency
- Distinctiveness
- Consensus
Info used in making an attribution
Kelly’s theory
Situational= all 3 high Personal= Consistency is high while consensus and distinctiveness is low
Self serving bias
More personal attributions for success
More situational attributions for failures
Primacy effect
First impressions
Initial info may shape how we perceive subsequent info
Recency effect
Greater weight to most recent information
Attitude behaviour relationship strongest when
Situational factors weak
Self perception theory
Behaviour doesnt threaten self worth and attitudes weakly held
Communicator- message - channel - audience- context
Persuasion
Social facilitation
Increased tendency to perform one’s dominant response in presence of others
Conformity
Essential for norms to influence people
Adjustment of
Individual behaviours
Attitudes
Beliefs
To a group standard
Informational social influence
Cormformity because we believe others have accurate knowledge and are right