PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Fundamental Attribution Error, Cognitive Bias, Fairy
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For review, write all the definitions out in your own words. Thin slice: you get a quick slice of a persons behavior and determine what you got out of it. Ease of attribution: we can take little things and make big stories about them. Come up with complex explanations about their behavior. Attribution how people explain causes of behavior and events. Internal attribution: talking about who you think a person is. Attributing the persons behavior to who the person is on the inside. External attribution: attributing the persons behavior rather to the situation that they are in than who they are. So you still have the same beliefs about who the person is rather, the situation just changed the way they acted. Fundamental attribution error: when we perceive other peoples behavior, we have the tendency to overestimate the persons internal attribution. Perceptual salience: we tend to overestimate the causal role of imformation we have available to us.
