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social thinking
Review for Psych
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Attribution theory | – How do people explain the behavior of others and their own behavior |
| situational | Cause of the behavior attributed to external factors, such as delays, the action of others, or some other aspect of the situation |
| dispositional | Cause of the behavior attributed to internal factors such as personality character |
| Consistency | ex – Are you always late or are you late only today. |
| Distinctiveness | – Is it only this situation that we see this behavior or in all situations |
| Consensus | ex – Do other students find the class boring? |
| Fundamental attribution error | Tendency of people to overestimate the influence of another person’s internal characteristics on behavior and underestimate the influence of the situation. |
| Self serving bias | The tendency to make personal attributions for success and situational attribution for failures |
| Self serving prophecy | – When people’s erroneous expectations leads them to act toward others in a way that brings about the expected behaviors, thereby conforming their original impressions. |
| Cognitive dissonance | Form new cognitions to justify their behavior, reduced by justifying, blaming, and denying |
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