PSYC 215 Chapter 5: Full Summary Notes
11 Mar 2016
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He created microsot at the age of 19. Few people had the opportunity to get programming experience. Bill gates had the opportunity namely because his family was very wealthy. The observer is inclined to atribute highly disincive acions to personality traits and abiliies of the actor. In other words, people (observers) are more inclined to think that outliers (actors) are singular because of something they have in themselves. The actor is more inclined to atribute the same acion to situaional factors. We will understand in this chapter the process of causal atribuion for events: how people understand why others, as well as they themselves, behave they do. A causal atribuion is the construal process people use to explain both their own and other"s behavior. It"s the process of linking an event to a cause, such as inferring that a personality trait is responsible for a behavior.
