Psych Chapter 16 Riki's

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Attribution

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Inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others behavior and their own behavior

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Attribution:
Situational or External Factors

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Environmental.

ex: Business goes under, it was a bad year for economy

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Attribution:
Dispositional or internal factors

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Personal.

ex: Your business went under because you don't know how to manage money.

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Fundamental attribution error:

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Tendency to attribute the behaviour of others to internal, dispositional causes and overlook the influence of external factors.

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Attribution 2 step process

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1st, you automatically think of personal attribution, then with effort you take the 2nd step to think of external attributions

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Attraction

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Positive feelings towards another including liking, friendship, and loving

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Liking

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Personal regard, intimacy, esteem

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Love

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Liking plus a deep sense of attachment
romantic and/or companionate

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Triangular love theory (Sternberg)

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Passion, Intimacy, and commitment
3 dimensions, any two can mix, but all three levels equal consummate love

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Affected Attitudes

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Emotional feelings stimulated by the object of the attitude (you see a clown, you are terrified of them, but some people aren't)

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Components of your attitude

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Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral

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Cognitive Attitude:

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Beliefs about the object of the attitude

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Behavioral

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A predisposition to act in certain wats towards the object of the attitude

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Degree of specificity

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Why our attutitude and behavior don't line up, their inconsistent with each other
(you don't mind seeing a clown, yet your palms are sweaty)

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persuasion

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involves changing our attitudes

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cognitive dissonance

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Inconsistency amongst attitudes and/or behaviours produces attitude change. When your idea's aren't in harmony with each other, you're an animal rights activist but you're eating a hamburger.

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Effort Justification

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When you go to a concert, and the show sucked, but you still say it was a good concert because of the amount of effort that you put into it.

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Self Perception Theory

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Tradition view: Attitudes determine behaviour (A:I don't like liberal politicians. B:Vote Conservative)

Bem's View: Behaviour determines attitude (B:hmm,I only vote conservatives, A:I guess I don't like liberal politicians)

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Bystander Intervention

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Intervention is less likely if a group of people witness an attack, it equals a diffusion of responsibility
smaller group size: Faster results

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Social Loafing

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Reduced productivity in groups,
work better alone, again, diffusion of responsibility for who should be doing what, resulting in a reduction of effort.

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Actor Observed Bias

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tendency to attribute
others’ behaviour to dispositional factors and
our own behaviour to situational factors

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self-serving bias:

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tendency to attribute one’s
own success to internal causes and one’s
own failure to external causes