Chapter 16 Not My Type

Attribution:
The process of attribution is where we simple attribute one's behavior to internal dispostion or external situations. We may try to link someones behavior or why they do the things they do because of something in their personality or because of something that is taking place in their life. For example, we may think that our best friend is being crabby not because she is like that all the time, but because something is or has happened in her personal life to cause her to be this way. She may have had a fight with someone close, had a bad day, car wreck, a death in the family, or any of the above to cause her to be that way. The fundamental attribution error is the overestimation of the influence of personality, and understanding their influence on situations.

Stereotyping:
Steroetypes are when we generalize a belief or action about a certain group of people. For example, blondes are dumb, rednecks like snowmobiling, southerners like nascar, or all which a group is assciated. Illusory correlations are when people tend to overestimate a link between two variables and the correlation is small or none existant. Examples of this are the team won the game because they prayed beforehand, wearing his lucky shoes made him jump faster, all things where there is an associated link between an event. This is how stereotypes are made.

Chapter 13

I found it interesting in the fact that babies always suck on their thumbs. The kids that grow up know that it is not in the style to do so, so they smoke instead because it still gives that oral response that smoking gives. that was extremely interesting.
Inkblots were also very interesting to me. when showing people the same image of an inkblot, their personality will decide what they will see in an inkblot. For example, If the person is a serial killer they may see a victim, weapon, or something to of that nature. Also how people describe images or pictures projects their inner feelings. They may not notice, but people all have a different way of showing their personality.
We all go through the who are we stage. Some people will not admit this. Whether it is sports or what will you study in school. All these things are choices that our personality could have an effect on. When you ask yourself, "Who am I" a lot of things come to mind. When we did the 20 who am i questions, it reminded me of a good example of showing ourselves who we think we are. I really liked this chapter because it helped us understand how one finds oneself