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| A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment |
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| An attempt to determine whether an individual’s behavior is internally or externally caused |
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| Fundamental Attribution Errors |
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| The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others |
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| The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors |
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| The tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one’s interests, background, experience, and attitudes |
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| The tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic |
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| Evaluation of a person’s characteristic that is affected by comparisons with other people recently encountered who rank higher or lower on the same characteristics |
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| Judging someone on the basis of one’s perception of the group to which that person belongs |
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| A process of making decisions by constructing simplified models that extract the essential features from problems without capturing all their complexity |
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| Intuitive Decision Making |
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| An unconscious process created out of distilled experience |
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| People who are weak in an area will overestimate their abilities the most |
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| The tendency to fixate on initial information, from which one then fails to adequately adjust for subsequent information |
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| The tendency to seek out information that reaffirms past choices and to discount information that contradicts past judgments |
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| The tendency for people to base their judgments on information that is readily available to them |
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| An increased commitment to a previous decision in spite of negative information |
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| The tendency of individuals to believe that they can predict the outcome of random events |
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| The tendency to prefer a sure gain of a moderate amount over a riskier outcome that might have a higher expected payoff |
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| The tendency to believe falsely, after an outcome of an event is actually known, that one would have accurately predicted that outcome |
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| A system in which decisions are made to provide the greatest good for the greatest number |
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| Respecting and protecting the basic rights of individuals |
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| Impose and enforce rules fairly and impartially to ensure equitable distribution of benefits and costs |
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| Attributing one's own characteristics to other people |
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