PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Neuroticism, Fundamental Attribution Error, Conscientiousness
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Bill gates" success was not fluke: his parents were rich and enrolled him in private school; Computer center corporation(ccc) offered free programming time exchange for testing company software: ccc ran out of money; gates and friends persuaded local. Rm, information sciences(isi) to give them free computer time to help rm develop payroll program. Spent 20-30 hours/week programming: by age of 19 he had thousands of hours of programming, Harvard was pointless to teach him: overall: gates is a smart guy, but it was fortunate events that made him the man, attribution theory: how people assign causes to events around them, ex. People assume bill gates was smartest man in the world; truth was he just had a lot of practice before anyone else. From acts to dispositions: inferring the causes of behavior: causal attribution: process people use to explain both their own and others" behavior.
