Last Blog!! Okay, now that that's out of my system...
Attribution is blaming or explaining someones behavior on their situation or disposition. For example, Jake stole the cookie from the kitchen. But his best friend Harry tells the daycare teacher that he only did it because Karen told him she would tell everyone he slept with a doll if he didn't. In this, Harry is explaining why Jake did the bad thing - because he didn't want Karen to tell that he slept with a doll.
The fundamental attribution error is when an observant fails to recognize a person's situation and how it may impact they way they act. For example, a girl could be very quiet in school, but you may see her at night at a concert playing a trumpet solo and think, "wow, how can she be so quiet in school, but play like that in front of a bunch of people." What you fail to recognize is that she probably feels out of place a school, but at the concert she is in her element.
Stereotyping, in the book, is defined as a generalized belief about a group of people. Basically this means putting people into social groups based on what they look like, or sometimes how old they are. Illusory correlation is overestimating a link between two variables. These two things could easily be compared, because stereotyping often happens before you get to know a person, just like illusory correlation is seeing a result that is expected from data even when it doesn't exist.
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