Social Thinking: Perceiving Persons The key to earning a good grade is clearly explaining how your experience relates to the textbook. The number of points each section is worth can guide you in the amount of detail needed. Part 1 Go to Chapter 2 or 3. Find one of the following errors that you have made: planning fallacy, false-consensus effect, false uniqueness effect, confirmation bias, counterfactual thinking, illusory correlation, regression toward the average, belief perseverance, fundamental attribution error. Name the error. Copy, exactly as written, the definition of that error. Enclose the definition in quotation marks. After the definition, in a parenthesis, indicate on which page you found the definition, using the APA format: (p. 123). [10 points] Part 2 Describe the situation in which you committed the error. More details = more points. [30 points] Part 3 Explain how your thinking and behavior in that situation relate to the definition. (Assume the reader of your paper does not have a degree in social psychology and needs to have that connection explained very clearly. It might help to incorporate some the definition’s key words in your explanation.) [40 points] Part 4 When were you able to correct the faulty thinking that you described in Part 2? Did it happen right after the event, or did it take a while for you to realize your mistake? (If you just realized it after reading this chapter that is OK.) Describe how you came to realize that you were wrong. [10 points] Part 5 Explain how this realization changed your thinking and behavior. How might you think and act differently in the future if you were to experience a similar situation? Do not repeat what you did in the past (Part 4). Look ahead to the possibility that you will find yourself in a similar, but not identical, situation. [10 points] Grammar and Spelling Correct all spelling and grammar errors before you submit your file, or you will lose points. Deductions ranging from 5 to 30 points will be taken for excessive grammar and spelling errors. In extreme cases, a paper will be returned, ungraded, for editing, subject to a late penalty. At a minimum, set the grammar/spell checker in your word processor to its most strict level. Better yet, online tutors can be found using the (?)Help icon on the first screen you see after logging on. If you use the online UpSwing tutors submit your file to the Psychology tutor, who will check the content and then forward your paper to the English Department tutor for a grammar/spelling check.