| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Attributions | inferences people make about the causes of events and their own and others behaviors. |
| Dispositional/internal attributions | behavior is due to internal characteristics, personality traits |
| Situational external attributions | behavior is due to circumstances, the environment |
| Fundamental Attribution error | Tendency to explain the behaviors of others using dispositional/Internal attributions but to explain one’s own behavior using situational/external attributions influenced by our motivations. |
| self-serving bias | Attribute your successes to dispositional/internal factors and your failures to situational/external factors |
| self-effacing bias | attribute you successes to situational/external factors and your failures to dispositonal/internal factors |
| ethnocentrism | tendency to view the world through your own cultural filters |
| inflexible ethnocentrismm | inbility to step outside your perspective and view the behaviors of others from their cultural perspective |
| flexible ethnocentrism | people learn to temporarily put on hold their own perspective and interpret the behaviros of others form others perspective |
| false uniqueness effect | the tendecy for individuals to underestimate the commonality of desirable traits and to overestimate their uniqueness. |
| stereotypes | Generalized images that we have about a group of people |
| auto-stereotypes | stereotypes about your own group |
| hetero-stereotypes | stereotypes about other groups |
| how are stereotypes formed | 1 selective attention 2 concept formation and categorization 3 attributions |
| schema | how we categorize our beliefs, knowledge and experiences |
| accommodation | change our scehma to fit the data |
| assimilation | change the data to fit our schema |
| hwo are sereotypes formed | 1. belief perseveance effect 2. representation bias 3. availabilty bias 4. fundamental attribution error |
| prejudice | feelings and attitudes directed towards an individual based solely on his/her group membership |
| explicit prejudice | verbalized and made public |
| implicit prejudice | unspokenor outside conscious awareness |
| discrimination | unfair treatment of others based on their group membership |
| institutional discrimination | occurs at the level of a large group, society, or organization |
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