Lecture 11

Question 1

Attribution

Answer 1

The way people explain behaviour

Question 2

Internal Attribution

Answer 2

Explanation for behaviour based on a person’s characteristics and personality

Question 3

External Attribution

Answer 3

Explanations for behaviour based on the situation or social context

Question 4

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 4

Automatic tendency to make internal attributions for other people’s behaviour (underestimate the power of the situation)

Question 5

Jones & Harris, Castro Study

Answer 5

Assigned speech writers should have been viewed as external attribution, yet people still assumed the writers were pro-castro

Question 6

Self-serving Bias

Answer 6

Tendency to make internal attributions for our successes and external attributions for our failures.

Question 7

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Answer 7

Our expectations of others lead us to act in a way that actually brings about the expected behaviours

Question 8

Personality : focuses (3)

Answer 8

Distinctiveness : explains differences between people in same situation
Consistency: Stability in behaviour across social contexts
Genetic / heredity

Question 9

Development of Personality : Freud

Answer 9

focus on how personality is shaped by unconscious mental forces. Influenced by dialogue between id (primitive pleasure center), ego (realistic decisions), super-ego (moral compass)

Question 10

Defense Mechanisms (Freud - 3)

Answer 10

Repression - attempting to bury unpleasant realities in the unconscious
Projection - attributing your thoughts, feelings, and emotions to other people
Reaction Formation - hiding one’s feelings by behaving in exactly the opposite way