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.
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