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Chapter 7
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- 1Chapter 7 Fundamental Attribution ErrorPeople's tendency when explaining the behaviour of others to attribute internal causes(the kind of person they are) rather than external factors. Tendency reverses when considering own behaviour. More a bias than an error.
Storms-Found people explained behaviour their behaviour in situational terms when describing from memory. Describing behaviour on video it then switches to dispositional(like describing another)
Important in understanding social cognition. - 2Chapter 7 Attribution ErrorTheory that explains the processes involved in attributing causes to the behaviour of others & ourselves.
Heider-when we make judgements of people's actions/behaviour we look for causes either within the person (internal) or the environment (external).
Important in understanding social cognition. - 3Chapter 7 SchemaA mental structure that contains knowledge relating to a particular kind of object. In social psychology these are based on social objects like people,situations,activities and issues. Different tyoes of schema;role, person & event.
Bartlett-Used schema to explain why people mis-remember things. English people retelling an American Native story becomes recognisably more British.
Important as helps understand social perception. - 4Chapter 7 StereotypeMental representation of a person that over-generalises them, making them more like a 'typical'memeber of a certain social group than they actually are. Emphasis on characteristic of the category we have put them in that them as individuals.
Tajfel-Boys over=emphasised similarities within their in-group & exaggerated differences with their out-group.
Important as helps understand cognitive processes. - 5Chapter 7 Self-Serving BiasInformation processing bias which serves the perceivers interests in some way. Tendency to attribute internal factors to success & external factors to failures.
Lau & Russell-Content analysis of success/failure of sports events found greater tendency to attribute wins to internal factors.
Important to understanding of social processing & bias forming.
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