BUS 272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fundamental Attribution Error, Brown Hair, Stereotype

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Christopher Zatzick

Document Summary

Bus 272 lecture 2: perception, personality, and emotions. The process with which individuals detect and interpret environmental stimuli. It"s about what you notice and perceive (how it canges under different circumstances) The perceiver: based on backround, values, experiences and by the target. The target: baby sleeping you wouldn"t notice it but if it was crying you would perceive it. The situation: baby in a classroom its weird but not in the maternity wing, perception changes in context. When individuals observe behaviour, they attempt to determine whether it is internally or externally caused. Attributions depend on: distinctiveness (is it for all other context or just one) Highly distinct could be a external cause: consensus (everyone or just one, consistency. Fundamental attribution error: we don"t always think about external caused, we assume that others people behaviour are internally caused, often make errors.