Chapter 16 Blog

The process of attribution is the theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition. The 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 personal disposition. Stereotypes are a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people. Illusory correlations are related to stereotyping because illusory correlation is the expectation of a relationship of any kind to exist when it doesn't and sterotyping is the belief about a group of people. So they are related to each other because they both are making opinions about people that are not true or making opinions about anything that isn't true.

Chapter 13 Blog

My personality I would have to say would be from how my parents raised me as a child. I also think that I am a twin and that I am the oldest of the two of us so I think of the roll as being a role model to my brother and that he has to listen to me because I am the oldest. A lot of people say that I am a lot like my dad because I like to work hard and I am very determined at what I do and my dad is alot like that. The way that this has made my personality the way it is now is because my dad has always told me that i need to work hard at what I want and if you do work hard you will get it. So I believe my personality is very good and it will get me vary far in life because of my dad.

I thought the video with the Japenese wrighting was very interesting and I think that I can relate to it a lot because it talks about how we can find our personality through different pictures that we see and what our opininos may be about those pictures. They also talked about how our individual qualities may show what kind of personality we might have. I think this is very interesting because I have asked people for example what their opinion was on this specific object that I showed them and I could tell what kind of personality they had by liking this object or not because they would go on to say "no I don't like this picture, I like this picture better because it has more colors". So this person may have a colorful or outgoing type of personality.