

The ultimate attribution theory divides people on the ingroup and outgroup members and explains that people tend to have a prejudice towards the outgroup members.Crash, a film about how people’s misperceptions shape their reality had me focus on the character Farhad, a Persian store owner. It generally describes the people’s attitude towards others and to themselves stating that we explain our own failures by the external circumstances but blame others for their characters. The major difference between the two is that the fundamental attribution error is the broader term than the ultimate attribution error.

The major similarity of the two theories boils down to the fact that both of them explain the prejudice and personal biases. For example, we tend to blame the environment and not our friends or beloved for the failures but we usually judge the strangers by their characters and do not think about the external conditions, which motivated them to behave in a certain way. According to the theory, people explain the negative behavior of the outgroup members by taking into account their personalities but judge the roots of the negative behavior of the ingroup members by taking into consideration only the external factors. The ultimate attribution theory is the psychological conception, which explains the prejudice towards the people, who are not the members of our group. For example, we tend to explain our lateness by referring to some external factors, while explain the lateness of others by their lack of organization and responsibility. According to the theory, people tend to evaluate their own behavior from the standpoint of the external circumstances and to judge the actions of others from the point of view of their characters and personal traits.

The fundamental attribution theory is the psychological conception, which explains the prejudice and personal bias.
