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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Overview
In this segment, Dr. Lee Ross provides examples that help us understand the fundamental attribution error.

Web Connections
Jonathan Mueller's website contains examples of the fundamental attribution error.
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm

A free online encyclopedia with information on the fundamental attribution error
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error



Pre-Test



1Have you ever attributed someone's behavior to their personality when it was really the situation that was the reason for their behavior?


2Would you assume that a professor who teaches social psychology is more insightful and kind than a professor of statistics?

Post-Test



3The point of Lee Ross' experience as a graduate student and then as a professor is that the graduate student is always less smart than the professor.
A)True
B)False


4When explaining someone's behavior, Westerners underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the impact of the person's traits and attitudes.
A)True
B)False


5We tend to presume that others are the way they act.
A)True
B)False


6The Fundamental Attribution Error is thinking a clerk who speaks to a customer impatiently is rude, rather than thinking he is trying to serve customers quickly.
A)True
B)False





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