Attribution is explaining someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition, in other words, it is explaining someone's behavior rationally and not jumping to comclusions or blaming.
The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to underestimate the situation or overestimate the impact of personal disposition when analyzing another's behavior. An example of the attribution error can be found in the last problem of the final :)
Stereotypes are generalized beliefs we hold about a specific group of people. Examples could be jocks, preps, nerds, goths, emos, Christians, to name a few. Stereotyping is directly related to illusory correlations in that these correlations feed our beliefs. When we believe a relationship exists between two things, we are more likely to notice when something happens that confirm what we think (and less likely to notice or store memories of when something contradicts what we believe). We like to think that what WE believe is what most people believe as well.
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