Planning Sequence of actions to get to your goal Interpersonal Scripts Fixed sequences of events that we expect to happen Categorization How we organize information and put it into groups tend to put complex groups into categories Frames Structures that shape how people interpret their perceptions your way of the world is different than others they direct our attention Attribution Theory Trying to explain one's behavior explains the cognitive and verbal processes we use to judge our own and others' behavior Attributional Bias Being more likely to judge your own negative behavior to external causes and our positive actions to internal states People are emotional, have an ego Self-Serving Bias Where your giving yourself more credit than is due when good things happen and we accept too little responsibility for those things that go wrong Fundamental Attribution Error Tending to others' negative behavior attributes to internal causes (like their personality) & their positive behavior to external causes (such as the situation) Physical Differences Impacts how we perceive things through taste, sight, hearing, etc.

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