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| Attribution (Attribution Theory) |
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| How people explain causes of behavior or events. Can be dispositional or situational. |
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| Dispositional Attributions |
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| Attributes something to person's personality traits or motives. |
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| Explains behavior based on context or external circumstances. |
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| A person's tendency to explain causes of events. Can be pessimistic or optimistic. |
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| Tendency to attribute one's own actions to situational causes, while attributing others' to disposition. |
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| Fundamental Attribution Error |
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| When people overemphasize dispositional factors and underemphasize situational factors. |
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| Tendency to take dispositional credit for success, while attributing failure to situation. |
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| Internal Locus of Control |
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| Belief of the extent of control a person has over the outcomes of their actions. Internal means that an individual attributes failures and successes to themselves. |
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| External Locus of Control |
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| Belief of the extent of control a person has over the outcomes of their actions. External means an individual attributes failures and successes to outside forces. |
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| The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases an individuals like toward them. |
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| Occurs when expectations/stereotypes about a person lead someone to treat that person differently, and as a result the expectation/stereotype happens. |
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| Comparing oneself in relation to others. Downward - comparing to someone who is worse. Upward - comparing to someone who is better. |
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| Feeling of discontent that occurs when an individual believes they are worse off than someone else. |
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| Fixed generalized belief about a group of people. |
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| The amount of information a person is thinking about. |
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| A predetermined negative feeling or attitude towards a group and its members. |
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| Biased behavior directed at someone because of their group. |
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| A belief individuals don't realize that they hold. |
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| People "get what they deserve, and deserve what they get." |
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| Out-Group Homogeneity Bias |
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| The tendency to see members of an out-group as more similar to one another than to members of a person's own group. |
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| Tendency to favor one's own group over others. |
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| Tendency to use one's own culture as a standar with which to evaluate others' cultures by. |
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| When an individual cannot let go of a belief, even when proven wrong. |
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| Looking for info that supports predetermined belief. |
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| The feeling when an individual's actions don't match their beliefs, or when they possess two conflicting beliefs. |
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