Discussion question

Classmate 1

Mary Cooper

Two perceptions we learned about this week were self-serving bias and fundamental attribution error. They are mistakes that we make when judging ourselves and others after something has or has not been done. Self-serving bias is people's tendency to give themselves all the credit after they have done some thing successfully. Like wise if they do something and the outcome is negative it is not their fault. For example, some one tells their dog to sit and it sits, they are a really good dog trainer. If they tell their dog to sit and it walks away, instead of taking responsibility and admitting they are a bad dog trainer, the person may just say it is a bad dog. 

Fundamental attribution error is judging other's actions based on internal factors instead of external. For example someone might be walking in a crowd of people and bump into some one else. That person may say that they are rude and do not care about other's. Instead of thinking about what is going on around them and saying they bumped into me because there is a million other people to try to avoid and it was just an accident. 

Classmate 2

Ashlynn Davis

Self-serving bias is how we explain our own behaviors, refers to our tendency to attribute our successes to stable, internal causes while attributing our failures to unstable, external causes. We as communicators can do our best to not make this mistake by knowing that we are human and we do make mistakes and we just can't ignore our failures. For example if we make a bad grade, it is not the professors fault. It is ours and we need to realize that. 

Fundamental attribution error is what attribute other people's behavior to internal rather than external causes. As communicators we can do our best to not make this mistake by not being so quick to judge. The other person may seem rude but they were just having a bad day because of something external in their life that happened and they could not help the way they feel. We need to take into consideration that other people have things going on in their life that they have no control over. 

Classmate 3

April Qualls

Self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute to one's successes to stable internal causes and one's failures to unstable external causes. In simpler terms, this means how we explain our actions and our behaviors. For example, say you got a good grade on a test, you attribute to the fact that you studied really hard for that test, but if you got a bad grade, you would attribute to thinking that the teacher was very unfair and that he didn't explain what you needed to study for the test. We can avoid this by remembering that we all are human and that we make mistakes sometimes, but to not let those mistakes define who you are.

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to attribute other's behaviors to internal rather than external causes. One example that everyone can relate to is driving. When you are driving and someone cuts in front of you without turning their blinker on, you automatically think that that person is the worst driver on the planet. We don't think about other things that could attribute to that person getting in front of you, like them being late for work or there was a family emergency. A way to avoid this to not think so negatively of everyone, and try to put yourself in the other person's shoes, and not be so quick to judge.

Classmate 4

Sterling Saul

Self serving bias is when we are favorable towards one thing versus another in order to help ourselves in some way. This can include, but is not limited to, favoring the outcome, in which deems you correct, favoring an outcome that will help you in some way, or favoring an outcome that will be at less of an expense to you. Fundamental attribution error is when someone is biased towards something strictly by internal factors as opposed to external factors which could be recognized as hard evidence. In order to not make these mistakes we should think a circle around what we want to say before we say it and be honest with ourselves about whether we are being biased or not, and if so, are we being biased because of actual external and true factors or internal and false factors.