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Overview: The Fundamental Attribution Error is "the tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional influences upon other's behavior" (Myers, 2016)
What to write about:
Discuss an example of one time when someone made the FAE about you.
(Someone underestimated situational influences and overestimated dispositional influences about your behavior)
Discuss an example of one time you made the FAE about someone else.
(You underestimated situational influences and overestimated dispositional influences about another person's behavior)
How to write about it:
In your post, for each example:
Describe the examples in depth and detail.
What was the situational influences?
What was the dispositional influences?
What was the outcome?
How did you/other person feel about the experience?
Each example should be a long paragraph. (150 Words)*
"A" answer should:
Please cite your source using APA Style.
have 150 words per example (300 total)
be written in complete sentences.
answer the question completely
Explanation / Answer
FAE about me:
After marriage I had been to Paris, we were newly married and there I met group of many friends. I am shy person by nature, rarely like loud music and parties. I like to day dream and be in my world. My hobbies are reading and cooking. After meeting them they saw me as stubborn or selfish person who is not more talkative and doesn’t comes to parties. Whereas I was puzzled why should I be loud and be outgoing every time. In fact I was new, I was very much missing my own country, my parents. Everything was new and adjusting with husband was also a new task and hence I was always in thoughts. I found things that I am more better when I am just with music, books and meet them for a while just for fun. Hence they didn’t consider the surroundings or that I might feel new in the situation, but they put the whole blame on me.
FAE I made:
They were in fact very welcoming and made nice arrangements when I had come. But I unnecessarily saw them as spend thrifts. They also made good plans about visiting new places with me and showing me the famous places. But I saw them as over outgoing. They were happy that their friend’s wife is coming and its a celebration of joy and fun. I remember they cooked food in our kitchen but I found it very sneaky peaky and didn’t valued their efforts. I was of course good in academics as compared to them, they were in hospitality profession which I didn’t even considered as good and hence found many reasons to complain to my husband about them. I didn’t took into account their enthusiasm, or activeness or friendliness towards me.
PS: It has been more than 5 years now. And gradually we started knowing each other better and we are good friends now. :)
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