General Psychology- Using Psychology to Learn Psychology 2022, 12th Edition Unit 3 What do social psychologists study? - Correct Answers ✅how we think about, influence, and relate to each other; why the same person may behave quite differently in different situations.What is ATTRIBUTION theory, and who developed it? - Correct Answers ✅FRITZ HEIDER's theory about how we explain other people's behavior.what are ATTRIBUTIONS? Are they facts, or best guesses? - Correct Answers ✅the reasons we assume people behave the way they do; our best guesses, what we believe to be the most likely causes and explanations of people's behavior What are DISPOSITIONAL ATTRIBUTIONS? - Correct Answers ✅When we attribute somebody's behavior to their character, internal traits, and motives.What are SITUATIONAL ATTRIBUTIONS? - Correct Answers ✅When we decide that someone behaved a certain way due to a situation they were in What would be an example of a dispositional and situational attributes that could be used to explain the same behavior? - Correct Answers ✅Situation: Dr. C is in his classroom of 1 / 2
General Psychology- Using Psychology to Learn Psychology 2022, 12th Edition Unit 3 330 students, and during his lecture, there is a student who is
struggling to stay awake and is not taking any notes:
Dispositional: Dr. C could assume he (the student) is a lazy,
irresponsible student who behaves this way because that is embedded in his character.
Situational: Dr. C could wonder if he (the student) is ill, and
he drug himself to class, or maybe he is working a full time job to make ends meet.What is the FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR? - Correct Answers ✅the tendency for observers who are analyzing other people's behavior to overestimate the effect of internal dispositional factors (personality, character, etc.) and underestimate the effect of situational factors (the situation or environment, roles people are playing, etc.) in causing people's behavior.What did the experimenters do to demonstrate the fundamental attribution error? - Correct Answers ✅Experimenters brought in university students. The original group was split in half, and one half were told they were having a conversation that was going to be spontaneous and natural. The other half were told that the conversation had been preplanned, and the person they were going to talk to had already been told how to treat them.
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