Social Psych Chapter 4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 social perception | meaning how we form impressions and make inferences about other people |
| external attribution | an explanation of a person's behavior as caused by situational, or external, factors |
| internal attribution | an explanation of a person's behavior as caused by dispositional, or internal, factors |
| correspondent inference theory | the theory that people infer whether a person's behavior is caused by internal dispositions of the person by looking at various factors related to that act |
| covariation theory | a theory explaining how people determine the causes of a person's behavior by focusing on the factors present and absent when a behavior does and does not occur, and specifically on the role of consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency |
| consensus | whether other people generally agree or disagree with a given person |
| distinctiveness | whether the person's attitude or behavior in this situation is relatively unique or whether the person generally reacts in a similar way across different situations |
| consistency | whether the person's attitude adn/or behavior is similar over time. |
| fundamental attribution error | the tendency to focus on the role of personal causes in predicting behavior, while ignoring situational influences |
| actor-observer effect | the tendency to see other people's behavior as caused by dispositional factors but see our own behavior as caused by the situation |
| belief in a just world | when we tend to assume that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people |
| two-stage model of attribution | you first automatically interpret another person's behavior as caused by his or her disposition, and only later do you adjust this interpretation by taking into account situational factors that may have contributed to the behavior |
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