Topic 1-Attribution Theory, found in an episode of “Shameless”
This show is about the problems that affect the family that stems from the children’s parents. The mother and father are both drug abusers that abandoned their children to pursue a life of drugs and crimes. In order to keep all the kids together the oldest sister, Fiona, takes over as the parental figure. In this episode of Shameless alludes to the attribution theory. Fiona and her brothers and sister are trying to deal with the drama in their lives. Such as lip getting accepted to college but he gets expelled in 2 semester due to his alcohol addiction that becomes crippling when he damages a teacher car. This lands him in rehab where he then gets out and moves back home with…show more content… When he was selling chocolate a nifty sales men told SpongeBob’s tricks to make chocolate more alluring by lying about the effects of the chocolate. He then begins his campaign to cell chocolate. On the way to sell the chocolate a wild men starts screaming about chocolate. The salesmen makes SpongeBob think that the man is crazy consumer that is mad about his sales. So SpongeBob avoids the man at all cost until he is forced to interact with the man. The man was not some crazy mad consumer like SpongeBob thought. In fact, he was a consumer that like the chocolate so much that he wanted to buy the entire case of chocolate. The misinformed information he was given formed him to come up with inaccurate assumption that caused him to prejudge the man. The outcome that was suspected was not the reality. He was not trying to kill SpongeBob but in fact he was trying to buy more product from SpongeBob. This is a good example of misinformation effect. SpongeBob was misinformed or not told a part of the information that he needed to make an accurate judgment about the intentions of the chocolate man. However the misinformed information allowed him not to fully evaluate the situation property and thus altered the way he handled the situation. I do not think he would have ran or would have been afraid if he knew information that was left
