https://padlet.com/jacobher7464/3rdsj41z6c46 Made with good vibes en-us 2017-04-07 15:17:21 UTC 2025-11-19 22:23:28 UTC hello@padlet.com jacobher7464 https://padlet.com/jacobher7464/3rdsj41z6c46/wish/165410729 The attribution theory

The theory that examines our tendency to make sense of others behavior... is behavior a result of the situation the person in in or their individual traits?

Antecedent- information about person/situation oroir to circumstance

attribution- What we believe caused the behavior

personal- blaming the person's character

situational -blaming the circumstance external factors

Biases in attributions

Just world phenomenon- assumption that bad things happen to bad people and vice versa
if someone were to be raped then they deserved it for being bad

Fundamental Attribution Error- Overemphasize person attributions for other and underestimate them for ourselves

Self-Serving Bias- Attribute successes to ourselves and failures to situations

Attitude- stable organization of beliefs, feelings, and tendencies toward someone or something

ADC's of attitudes
Affect- feeling of love, hate , dislike...
Behavior- Aproach, avoid
cognition -Belief (facts, Opinions...

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Obedience, Conformity, and cognitive dissonance

Conformity
changing behavior to match that of the group

Cognitive Dissonance
Attitudes and behaviors inconsistent; We're motivated to decrease this tension
-Rationalization?

Obedience
Compliance with an explicit demand to change behavior from an authority figure

Prejudice and Discrimination

Prejudice
Intolerant, unfavorable, and rigid attitude toward a group of people
-Can be artificially induced (brown eyes/Blue eyes)

Discrimination
-Actions that deny opportunities and social esteem to an entire group of people or individual members of that group





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Is smoking bad for me

Attribution- fritz heider
How do people make judgements about the causes of behaviors
What are Harold Kelley's 3 Criteria to judge behavior 
-Distinctiveness
How similar is this situation to ther situations
Consistency
-Does individual act similarly in sam situation over time?
-Consensus
How do others in the same situation respond?

Changing attitube: Compliance techniques

Compliance: How we respond to a request

door-in-the-face Phenomenon
reasonably large request for a smaller request

Lowball procedures
similar to framing EX: when prices appear lower but actually 

foot in the door- the tendency for people to comply with a small request and later be more likely to comply with a larger request

Attraction is closely linked to:
-Proximity (#1)
mere Exposure Effect (McDonalds)
-Iniatial Perceptions
-Similarity
Attitudes, interests, values, beliefs, Anf Backgrounds
Physical Attractiveness
-matching Hypothesis
-Halo Effect
-Reward theory- Max, Rewards, Min. cost
Reciprocity- We like people who like us

Social Norms
-Expected behaviro that is adhered by  group members
-Social obligations
-Explicit norms- Talked about
Implicit Norms- Not spoken of, typically learn of these though violations.

Social loafing: Tendency for people to put forth less effort when working with a group towards a common goal

Group influence

Group polarization 
-discussion with like-minded people strengthens pre-exhisting beliefs

-Group think- Thinking or making decisions as a group that discourages individualism and creative thinking 
-individuals hesitant to voice opposion.]]> 2017-04-10 15:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobher7464/3rdsj41z6c46/wish/165697446 jacobher7464 https://padlet.com/jacobher7464/3rdsj41z6c46/wish/165792819 Social Facilitation- Strengthened performances

SOcial loafing- The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts towards attaining a common goal than when individually accountable

Deindividuation- The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occuring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

Group polarization- the beliefs and attitudes we bring to a group grow stronger as we discuss than with like-minded others. 

Groupthink- The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.

Norm- An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior. Norms prescribe "proper" behavior.

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Just-World Phenomenon-The tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

Ingroup- Us

outgroup-Them

ingroup bias-the tendency to favor our own group

Scapegoat theory- The theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame.







ADD-ONS FOR TEST

Attribution Theory-One attempts to understand the behavior of others by attributing feelings, beliefs, and intentions to them.

Fundamental Attribution theory- The tendency for observers, when analyzing others' behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.

Attitude- Feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particualt way to objects, people, and events.

Peripheral route persuasion- Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker's attractiveness

Central route Persuasion- Occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.





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Occurs when an individual acts in a less positive way or performs worse when they are around others.


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DIffusion of responsibilty- the independent variable of the study was the number of persons that the participant thought listened to the same discussion. The dependent variable was the time it took for the participant to react from the start ofthe victims fit until the participant contracted the experimenter 1 person or in a grup were the experimental groups there was no control

Changing attitudes

To see how milgram, and asch's studies have influenced social psychology and attitude change.

divide and conquer
-milogram
-asch
-zimbardo




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