Social Psych Lesson (Week 9) - Intro to Psych

Situational Attribution

• focus on factors external to the person

Dispositional Attributions

• Focus on the person themselves

Fundamental Attribution Error

• the assumption that people are in control of their own behavior

Just World Hypothesis

• the belief that people get the outcomes they deserve

Implicit Theories of Personality

• Allows us to interpret the world without having to scrutinize every situation we encounter instead we fill in any information we are missing

Out-Group Homogeneity Effect

• is another bias in the way that we think about other people

Implicit Association Test

• Stereptype Threat influences performance on test

Actor-Observer Bias

• is attributing other people’s behavior to dispositional or internal factors while attributing our own behavior to situational forces