judging and perceiving others

• attribution style refers to the tendencies and repeated patterns in the way someone makes attributions
• fundamental attribution error is our tendency to explain other peoples behaviors in terms of internal factors while ignoring possible external factors.
• internal attribution occurs when we judge behaviors as being caused by something personal within an individual.
• external attribution occurs when we determine the cause of the behaviors as resulting from situational factors occurring outside the individual.
• an attribution is an evaluation made about the causes of behavior and the process of making this evaluation.
• person perception refers to the different mental processes used to understand and form impressions of other people.
• person perception from a direct prospective provides judgments by observing the individual or interacting with them.
• person perception from a indirect perspective is by hearing about the individual we are judging from other people.