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Stangor Chp 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tendency to make more personal attributions for the behavior of others than we do for ourselves and to make more situational attributions for our own behaviors that for others | actor-observer bias |
| process of trying to determine the causes of people's behavior | causal attribution |
| traits warm and cold, which have a very strong influence on our impressions of others | central traits |
| perception that a situation is creating the same response in most people. when we perceive this we are likely to make and attribution to the situation | consensus information |
| perception that a situation always produces the same behavior in a person. when we perceive this we are likely to make an attribution to the situation | consistency information |
| principle that when making casual attributions a behavior is seen to have been more likely to have been caused by the situation if that behavior covaries (changes) across situations | covariation principle |
| perception that behavior occurs only when the situation is present--when we perceive this, more likely to make an attribution to the situation | distinctiveness information |
| people who tend to focus on the traits of other people and tend to make a lot of personal attributions for behavior of others | entity theorists |
| tendency when explaining behavior of others to overestimate the tole of person factors and overlook impact of situation | fundamental attribution error or correspondence bias |
| people who believe that personalities tend to change over time and who therefore are more likely to make situational attributions for events | incremental theorists |
| individual difference measure of the tendency to think carefully and fully about people and situations | need for cognition |
| any type of behavior that does not involve speaking | nonverbal behavior |
| process of learning about other people | person perception |
| determination that a behavior was cause primarily by the personality traits of the person | personal (internal or depositional) attribution |
| tendency for information that we learn first to be weighted more heavily than information learned later | primacy effect |
| attributions that help us meet our desires to see ourselves positively | self-serving attributions |
| determination that a behavior is cause primarily by factors external to person | situational (external) attribution |
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