Cognitive Psych Study Guide
Review Questions
Introduction to Psychology
Social Psychology;
Describe the difference between personal and situational attributions in explaining behavior. What is the Fundamental Attribution Error, and how is it related to these types of attributions?
Personal attributions- also know as internal or dispositional attributions, are explanations that refer to things within people, such as abilities, traits, moods, or efforts.
Situational attributions- external attributions, refer to outside events, such as the weather, accidents, or people’s actions
Fundamental attribution error- we tend to overemphasize the importance of personality traits and underestimate the importance or enviromental reasons of situation. Ex. Women fighting to board train
Explain and give examples of causes of interpersonal attraction, including proximity, familiarity, similarity, reciprocity, arousal, reactance, and physical attractiveness.
Interpersonal attraction-feeling drawn to another person
Proximity-we tend to like people that are close to us
Familiarity- we like mirrored images, and the more we are familiar with a person the more we like them
Similarity- birds of feather flock together, more similar person’s attitudes are to our own, the more we like the person. We need social validation of our beliefs and characteristics.
Reciprocity- we like those who like us
Arousal- when we are aroused, we are more likely to be attracted to someone Ex. Dutton and Aron bridge experiment or Horror Movies if your date doesn’t like horror movies and you take her to one then she is less likely to like you
Reactance- Romeo and Juliet effect. If someone like your parents tells you that they don’t like or don’t want you to be around your girlfriend, the more you will love them because we don’t like limits put on our freedom.
Physical Attractiveness- we like to find people that have similar physical attractiveness to us. Beautiful people are seen to be
Introduction to Psychology
Social Psychology;
Describe the difference between personal and situational attributions in explaining behavior. What is the Fundamental Attribution Error, and how is it related to these types of attributions?
Personal attributions- also know as internal or dispositional attributions, are explanations that refer to things within people, such as abilities, traits, moods, or efforts.
Situational attributions- external attributions, refer to outside events, such as the weather, accidents, or people’s actions
Fundamental attribution error- we tend to overemphasize the importance of personality traits and underestimate the importance or enviromental reasons of situation. Ex. Women fighting to board train
Explain and give examples of causes of interpersonal attraction, including proximity, familiarity, similarity, reciprocity, arousal, reactance, and physical attractiveness.
Interpersonal attraction-feeling drawn to another person
Proximity-we tend to like people that are close to us
Familiarity- we like mirrored images, and the more we are familiar with a person the more we like them
Similarity- birds of feather flock together, more similar person’s attitudes are to our own, the more we like the person. We need social validation of our beliefs and characteristics.
Reciprocity- we like those who like us
Arousal- when we are aroused, we are more likely to be attracted to someone Ex. Dutton and Aron bridge experiment or Horror Movies if your date doesn’t like horror movies and you take her to one then she is less likely to like you
Reactance- Romeo and Juliet effect. If someone like your parents tells you that they don’t like or don’t want you to be around your girlfriend, the more you will love them because we don’t like limits put on our freedom.
Physical Attractiveness- we like to find people that have similar physical attractiveness to us. Beautiful people are seen to be