COMN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fundamental Attribution Error
20 Nov 2016
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5) and then, (2) show how their instant perceptions affected how they thought about dave and the situation, using concepts from chapter 6 (and the lectures on nov. 8). Include in your answer, wysiati, heuristics (mental shortcuts), the inference ladder and errors in cognition and talk. Dave and his girlfriend ally are sitting together in dave"s room at a desk strewn with textbooks and notepaper. She appears to be fixated on her phone while he"s frantically flipping through the pages of a book and scribbling down notes. Exhausted, he finally closes the book and looks at ally with a firm expression on his face. He asks her directly how she"s going to finish her paper since he"s doing all the work for her. He complains that he"s got his own papers to finish, and midterms to study for.
