social perception 2 Flashcards

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what is attribution?

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escribing a cause of a person’s behavior

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what are the two types of attribution?

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-internal or dispositional
- external or situational

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what is Dispositional attribution

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an internal or psychological causes specific to the person concerned

ex:traits,attitudes,moods,judgements etc

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what is situational attribution?

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causes outside the person concerned
ex:luck,pressure from others or external circumstances

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what happens when we make fast attributions?

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it lead to attributional biases

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what is fundamental attribution error?

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it is overestimating how much an individual’s behaviour is due to personal characteristics,attitudes or beliefs

minimizing the influence of situation on that specific behaviour

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what is an example of a fundamental attribution error?

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if i think Eduardo was late today because he is a very lazy person, but in reality is because his bus was late

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what is Actor-Observer Effect?

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the tendacy for individuals acting in a situation to attribute the causes of their behaviour to external/situational factors

but for observers to attribute the sane behaviour to internal/dispositional factors such as personality

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what is an example the actor-observer effect?

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me -i didn’t do well in my math test because my teacher doesn’t like me.

my teacher- she didn’t do well in her math class because she is lazy/stupid

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what is the culture and cause: American and Chinese experiment

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chinese and american participants read an article about a murdered carried out by either a Chinese or American person.

they were asked to weight the importance of dispositional and situational factors

it was found that Americans though it was due more to personal factors and chineses though it was more due to situational factors

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how do we make attributions (kelley’s covariation matrix )?

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consistency: does this person usually act this way?(in this context)

distinctiveness: is this person’s behaviour in this situation different from their behaviour in other situations?(in other context)-she would do this in other places

consensus;dp other people act similar

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if we were to make an dispositional attribution,what would we expect?

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High Consistency + Low distictivness+Low Consensus

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what is we were yo make an external/situational ?

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High Consistency + High Distinctivness+High Consesus

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what about in an interactional attribution?

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very specific context
High consistency+High Disticviness+Low consensual

ex: cut me of I cursed them very loudly
-high consistency(cause I would do this anytime). high disticviness(because I would do to that ex specific)low consensus because others wouldn’t do the same

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