Not My Type Blog

Attribution:
The process of attribution is where we simply attribute one's behavior to internal disposition or external situations. We may try to link someones behavior or why they do the things they do because of something in their personality or because of something that is taking place in their life. For example, we may think that our friend is being irritable towards us not because she is like that all the time, but because something is happening in her personal life to make her become that way. She may have had a fight with someone close to her, had a bad hair day, flat tire, or any of the above to make her that way. That is the process of attribution, just our ability to link why someone is being the way they are.
The fundamental attribution error is the overestimation of the influence of personality and underestimating their influence of situation.

Stereotyping:
Stereotypes are when we generalize a belief about a certain group of people. For example, blondes are dumb, skaters are burnouts, all those which a group is associated. Illusory correlations are when people tend to overestimate a link between 2 variables and the correlation is slight or not at all. examples of this is, the team won the game because they prayed beforehand, wearing his lucky socks made him run faster, all things like that where there is a link associated, but no actual proof made. This is how stereotypes are made. One time can lead to a stereotype and belief for down the road. In turn they both work slightly the same.

Personality

I think there is alot that has shaped my personality. When i was little we grew up in the suburbs of chicago so my parents werent as lenient as they are now. After moving up north here it has made a big difference. I guess you could say to my friends i grew up with back in illinois i am a country girl now. i dont enjoy the same things they do for fun and they dont enjoy the same things i do for fun. In that aspect my family and friends have made a huge impact. I have had my heart opened up and stomped on by a guy i was with for 4 years so i guess you could say i have major trust issues now. I grew up as a tom boy. My dad loves snowmobiling and so do i now. my friends back in illinois frown upon even the thought that i race snocross now. But that is who i am i guess. So several things all building up to make me who i am today. and from this whole chapter if i were to say there were one theory that i took from this it would be the one made from Rogers. It is basically letting you aknowledge who you are and who you would like to be, it allows you to view yourself in a possitive matter letting you surround yourself with positive and genuine people also. That is the way i think it should be. after all, you can generally judge someone based on the people they surround themselves with!

Chapter 13 movie

I enjoyed the human experience video and how it took his personality to help them find a future career. I think that at the stage of life we are all in...soon to be graduating seniors, i think it is very important for us to be finding where we want to go in life. If we know more about ourselves and our personality then it will be able to help us discover what we will want to do with it and turn it into a career someday! So that movie was very appealing to me. However, i disliked the movie on Morals. It seemed to me like it was only confusing the basic concept of values and morals and what we do with them. thats only my opinion though. But i didnt think it clearly got to the point of what they were maybe trying to get across. Oh well. None the less it was a very very interesting chapter.

Big Five Assignment

After completing the big five inventory and receiving my results i found them very interesting. Some things were very on and some i felt were off. It was on that i am very social and agreeable because i think i am! i love to meet new people and talk with others! i really don't like fighting so more often than not i like to agree with the person or people i am around and avoid confrontation. However, the thing that surprised me most was that i scored some what low on the area of closed or open mindedness. I know myself pretty good and i know that i like to go out and try new things, meet new people, however, my results showed me that i rarely like to try new things because i like to be down to earth. So that really surprised me there.
After reading through my results it's a little more clear to me why i love currently being a C.N.A. I am a very social person and really easy to get along with so it makes it easy for me to communicate with the residents and make them feel at home. I always find it interesting to talk to them and hear the interesting stories that they have to tell from "back in the day". So clearly with the results that i scored highly in it makes sence that i enjoy a job where i am around people and communicating with others.
When it comes to social groups i think everyones personality plays their part. Obviously i am loud, outgoing, and social so i am friends with people that share the same interests. I'm not in a group of people that tend to stay at home on a friday night and read books. Not saying there is anything wrong with that, but i like to go out and meet new people, experience new things, and push my limits along the way. I just enjoy experiencing life. My friends tend to do the same. They are just as crazy, if not crazier than i really am and when you have a group of friends like that we all get along reallly good and have a fun time. My mom always said that people can tell alot about you just from the people you hang out with. I see that very clearly now!