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Hey everbody.. My name is Katie, i'm a senior at Edgar High and i am 17 yrs old. I only have one brother, and i can't even consider him a brother. I don't have any pets, but i do have the neighbors dog! I believe that the fact that i am adopted has shaped my life. If i wasn't adopted by my parents, i wouldn't be who i am today. I thank my parents for that. My mom is always there for me when i need her, sure she can be a mom, but she is always there as a friend too. Me and my parents are very close, and i think that is the way it will always stay. To me psycology is important because it is all over the place! It is one of those things that you will never be able to run away from. So everybody just has to lean back and accept it. The definition of psycology to me would have to be... The reasons why things happen and how they happen. The reasons we make the choices we do, why people are depressed, why some people are hyper, and why we act the way we act on a daily basis.

Monday, December 7, 2009

**Chapter16*Not.My.Type.Blog**

Attribution is: the theory that we explain someones behavior by crediting either the situation of the person's disposition.


  • You can see attribution when you look at the way people act. If you are a hostile person, you would have more of an aggressive personality rather than a gentle personality.

  • There are like two different types of attributes. There is a dispositional attribution or a situational attribution. The example that i used above would be a dispositional attribution.

A Fundamental attribution error is: the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of the impacy of personal disposition.

Stereotypes are general beliefs that you hold about a certain type or group of people. Like the preps, the potheads, the nerds. Things like that. An illusory correlation relates to this because you sort of have an illusion about a certain type of person, and you will believe what happens that supports your view on the subject.


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