Social Psychology: General Psychology

The study of human cognition, emotion and behavior in how we behave around others.

What is this?

• Attribution

• Social Psychology

• Memory

Process of explaining behavior to other's as well as one's own behavior...

• Memory

• Attribution

• Social Psychology

What we think of others consciously or unconsciously.

• Social Cognition

• Social Psychology

• Process of Explaining

Situational Attribution is where the behavior is assumed to be caused by the situation.

• False

• True

Factors to Attribution are Dispositional (Internal) and Situational (External)

• True

• False

Errors of Attribution: Fundamental Attribution error is...

• If someone is sulfuring it means they deserve it.

• People tending to overestimate the degree in which characteristics are the cause of behavior, while underestimating the involvement of any situational

  factors.

• To believe that people think and act like you.

If someone is suffering it must be because they did something to deserve it.

This attribution error is...

• Self Serving Bias

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Just World Hypothesis (Karma)

Self Serving Bias is...

• Attributing your success to your own character,

  while your failure is blamed on outside ones control

• Karma

The tendency to overestimate the degree to which you think other people act or think like you do.

• False Consensus Effect

• Self Serving Bias

Relatively stable thoughts, feels and responses one has towards people, situations, ideas and things.

Is this Attitude?

• No

• Yes