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How we form impressions of people from smallest amounts of evidence
Ex. Judging a book by its cover |
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Making infrences about others based on their actions
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A behavior that lies outside a person that we use to form our attributions
Ex. Walking, talking, and other observable behaviors |
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A behavior the we assume lies within a person that we use to make attributions
Ex. Personality traits, feelings,and emotions |
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| When a behavior changes very little when we observe it on many different occasions |
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| When the behavior occurs only under certain circumstances. |
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| To deduce causes, we take into account the person, actions directed towards them, and setting in which the action occurs. |
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Pressures to behave a certain way in particular settings in social situations.
Ex. Person at funeral very quiet |
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Person of intrest
*Actors tend to blame behavior on external causes
*Observers tend to blame behavior on internal causes |
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| Person action is directed towards |
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| Social or physical environment |
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| Fundamental Attributional Error |
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| Attributing the actions of others to internal causes |
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| external causes explain most of out own behaviors. |
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-Basic Human trait
-Helps meet need for approval, support, friendship, and information
-alleviates fear or anxiety
-others provide information for self evaluation. |
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-Comparing your own actions, feelings,opinions, or abillities to those of others.
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| comparing yourself with people of similar background, abilities and circumstances |
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comparing yourself to someone else through their disadvantages
*helps to make you feel better about yourself |
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Comparing yourslef to the advantages another person has over you
*used to help make improvements |
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| Downgrading internal explanations about behavior when a person's actions appear to be strongly influenced by external causes. |
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| the degree in which people respond alike |
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| Arranging to perform under poor conditions that usually impair performance to have an excuse for a poor showing. |
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