PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kilogram, Implicit-Association Test, Fundamental Attribution Error
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The fundamental attribution error: having the tendency to over estimate dispositional attributes and under estimate situational attributes. Situational attribution= depends on the situation; if someone is late for a meeting, it may be because they ran into an old friend on the way and didn"t feel it was right to brush them off. Dispositional attribution= depends on the traits of the person in question; person might be late to a meeting because they are disorganized or careless with other peoples times. Self-serving bias- with regard to our successes and failures. Successes are us re ecting our abilities and failures as ukes of circumstances. The actor-observer effect- making assumptions based on what others say and do is second nature to us and we can be surprisingly restraint to let go of those assumptions. False consensus effect- the belief that your thoughts are similar to others, it makes us overestimate how much others agree with us.
