MAN 320F Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fundamental Attribution Error, Randomness, Confirmation Bias
23 Dec 2016
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Three factors that influence perception - perceiver, target, and situation. Factors in perceiver - attitudes, motives, interests, experience, expectations. Factors in situation - time, work setting, social setting. Factors in target - novelty, motion, sounds, size, background, proximity, similarity. Perception - process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment. Attribution theory - an attempt when individuals observe behavior to determine whether it is internally or externally caused; depends on distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency. Fundamental attribution error - tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others. Self serving bias - tendency for individuals to attribute their own success to internal factors while putting the blame for failures on external factors. Selective perception - selectively interpreting what one sees on the basis of one"s interests, background, experience, and attitudes.
