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| How people form impressions of and make inferences about other people |
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| Heider`s theory that people practice a form of untrained psychology as they use cause and effect analyses to understand their world and other people`s behaviour |
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| seeing the behaviour as cause by something external to the person who performs the behaviour |
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| refers to wether the person's behaviour is caused by personal factors, such as traits, ability, effort, or personality |
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| Correspondent Inference Theory |
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| the theory that people infer whether a person's behaviour is caused by the person's internal disposition by looking at various factors related to the person's actions |
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| the theory that people determine the causes of a person's behaviour by focusing on the factors that are present when a behaviour occurs and absent when it doesnt occur, with specific attention on the role of consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency |
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| information about whether a person's behaviour toward a given stimulus is the same across time |
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| The first component of covariation theory and it refers to whether other people generally agree or disagree with a given person |
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| Refers to whether the person generally reacts in a similar way across different situations |
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| making attributions about one's own and others' behaviours based on group membership |
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| A tendency to attribute desirable characteristics to one's own group and undesirable characteristics to outgroups |
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| Fundamental Attribution error (Correspondence Bias) |
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| The tendency to overestimate the role of personal causes and underestimate the role of situational causes in explaining behaviour |
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| the tendency to see other people's behaviour as cause by dispositional factors, but see our own behaviour as caused by the situation |
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| the phenomenon in which people believe that bad things happen to bad people and that good things happen to good people |
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| Two stage model of attribution |
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| a model in which people first automatically interpret a person's behaviour as caused by dispositional factors and then later adjust this interpretation by taking into account situational factors that may have contributed to behaviour |
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| rules in a culture that govern how universal emotions should be expressed |
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