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Attribution theory
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the theory of how people explain others' behavior
Ex:attribute things to either internal dispositions or to external situations |
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Disposable attribution
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attributing behavior to the person's disposition and traits
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Situational attribution
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attributing the behavior to the environment
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Fundamental attribution error
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the tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences upon others' behavior/also called correspondence bias because we so often see behavior as corresponding to a disposition
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Self awareness
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a self conscious state in which attention focuses on oneself. Makes people more sensitive to their own attitudes and dispositions
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Belief perserverance
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persistence of one's initial conceptions, as when the basis for one's belief is discredited but an explanation of why the belief might me true survives
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Misinformation effect
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incorporating "misinformation" into one's memory of the event, after witnessing and event and receiving misleading info about it
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Priming
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activating particular associations in memory
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Controlled proccessing
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"explicit" thinking that is deliberate, reflective, and concious
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Automatic proccessing
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"implicit" or intuitive thinking that is effortless, habitual, and w/out awareness
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Overconfidence phenomenon
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the tendency to be more confident than correct- to overestimate the accuracy of one's belief
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Confirmation bias
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a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions
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Heuristic
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a thinking strategy that enables quick, efficient judgments/ speed of intuitive guides that help us stay alive
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Representative heuristic
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the tendency to presume, sometimes against contrary odd, that someone or something belongs to a particular group if resembling a typical memebrane
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Availability heuristic
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a cognitive rule that judges the likehood of things in terms of their availability in memory.
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