PSYC 2010 Lecture 12: 12.4

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2010
• Professor: Robinson

Document Summary

These explanations refer to outside people are motivated to draw interferences in part by a basic need for both order and predictability fer to things within people such as abilities, moods, or efforts. Cory booker rescued his neighbor from flames because he is brave. This is a personal attribution. events, such as luck, accidents or the actions of other people. Cory booker said that he just did what most neighbors would do id they realized that someone was trapped in a burn- ing building. with their beliefs and personalities overemphasize personality traits and underestimate situational factors. Fundamental attribution error: in explaining other people"s behavior the tendency to correspondent bias: this emphasizes the expectancies that peoples actions correspond people tend to take into account that other people are influenced b social circum- Ex: someone who follows order to harm someone is thought to be evil. When they focus on there own behavior, people tend to focus on situations.