BU288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fundamental Attribution Error, Scantron Corporation, Bow Tie
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4 short answer, choose any 3 (30 points) based on class lectures/discussions. Perception process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment; i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t to ob (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause people"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour is based on their perception of what reality is not on reality itself. We study this topic to better understand how people make attributions about events. We do(cid:374)"t see reality, we interpret what we see and call it reality. Attribution process guides our behaviour, regardless of the truth of the attribution. Attention acts as gate or filter to determine what information is processed: personal influences (motives & attitudes, external influences (one oddly dressed person in a crowd) We are constantly making judgements about the behaviour of other people. When we observe behaviour, we attempt to determine whether it is internally or externally caused. The process by which we do so is explained by attribution theory.
