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tendency often in individualistic cultures to attribute our own successes to dispositional factors and our own failures to situational factors Attributing success and failure to circumstances Application 1: associating failures with environment application 2: associating failure with something fault Sheriff: study at a summer camp- 2 groups were pitted against one another

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1. tendency often in individualistic cultures to attribute our own successes to dispositional factors and our own failures to situational factors
   Attributing success and failure to circumstances
   Application 1: associating failures with environment
   application 2: associating failure with something fault
2. Sheriff: study at a summer camp- 2 groups were pitted against one another. They grew to despise the other group. Groups were then intermix grouped. When presented with goals in which they had to work together the new groups then worked together
   Study at summer camp
   Application 1: parents
   Application 2: siblings
3. belief that an individual's behavior is based on events in the environment rather than long-lasting personality characteristics.
   Belief that environment determines behavior
   Application 1: children
   Application 2: pit bulls
4. belief that one's behavior is due to long-lasting personality traits rather than the current environment
   Personality traits determines behavior
   Application 1: bi polar people
   Application 2: people with anger problems
5. : researcher famous for teacher-learner study on obedience to authority
   Famous teacher-learner researcher
6. experimenter famous for one dollar or twenty dollar experiment
   Twenty dollar experiment
7. researcher famous for line study of conformity
   Famous conformity researcher
8. "fake subjects" that look and behave like real subjects in study
   Fake subjects
   Application 1: effects of alcohol
   Application 2: effects of marijuana
9. tendency to respond to others as they have acted towards you
   Reciprocal behavior
   Application 1: strangers
   Application 1: family
10. adjusting behavior because of request
    Obliging to behavior change requests
    Application 1: school
    Application 2: work