Do Now

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Do Now

• Please put your practice exam reflection slips in
  the bin!

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Social Psychology

• The study of how we think about, influence and
  relate to one another.

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Social Thinking

• How do we think about one another?

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Social Psychology

• Todays class
• How you think about people
• How you explain their behavior
• How attitudes and actions impact one another

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Attribution Theory

• The idea that we give a casual explanation for
  someone's behavior.

• We credit that behavior either to the situation
  or.

• To the persons disposition.

Was my friend a jerk because she had a bad day or
is just a bad person?
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Fundamental Attribution Error

• The tendency to underestimate the impact of a
  situation and overestimate the impact of personal
  disposition.

How do you view your teachers behavior? You
probably attribute it to their personality rather
than their profession.
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Attribution At Work
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The Effects of Attribution

• Social Effects
• Political Effects
• Workplace Effects

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Fundamental Attribution Error
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• Actor-observer bias
• Attributing others behavior to disposition but
  your own behavior to situational factors
• Self-serving bias
• Crediting your own successes to disposition, but
  attributing your own failures to the situaiton

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Attitudes

• A belief or feeling that predisposes one to
  respond in a particular way to something.

How might different attitudes respond to this
picture?
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Attitudes

• Mere Exposure Effect
• Central Route v. Peripheral Route

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Do our attitudes guide our actions?

• Only if.
• External pressure is minimal.
• We are aware of our attitudes.
• The attitude is relevant to the behavior.

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Attitudes
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More often, our actions affect our attitudes.
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Compliance Strategies

• Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
• Door-in-the-face phenomenon
• Norms of reciprocity

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Zimbardo Prison Study
Role playing affects attitudes. What do you
think happened when college students were made to
take on the roles of prison guards and inmates?
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What happens when we become aware that our
attitudes dont match or actions?
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• Cognitive Dissonance Theory
• People want to have consistent attitudes and
  behaviors.when they are not they experience
  dissonance (unpleasant tension).
• Usually they will change their attitude.

You have a belief that cheating on tests is bad.
The teacher was really bad so in that class it is
OK.
But you cheat on a test!!!
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