Imagine if you can know what causes people to behave a particular way, wouldn’t that be amazing in that it will help to eliminate a lot of future problems and make everyone happy? Attribution is the process through which we seek to identify the causes of others behaviours to gain knowledge of their stable traits and dispositions which is an aspect of social perception. Social perception is the process which we seek to know and understand other people. For instance, we may want to know why someone repeatedly tell lies or we may want to know if someone displaying kindness to be genuine or they have an ulterior motive.
There are many theories of attribution, however, of the two most influential, I prefer the Jones and Davis (1965) Theory of Correspondent Inference. This theory states that the overt actions displayed by individuals determine their traits or character. This is done by carefully observing the persons behaviour over a period of time. For instance, if there is a co-worker who is always kind, smiling, polite and always gives good advice, we can categorize the trait or this person as agreeableness and say the person is a good character. However, this theory may not always be as easy as it seems in the aforementioned scenario …show more content…
Also, in understanding their behaviours it will help counsellors gain knowledge of their traits and disposition (attributes). This will help me in understanding my clients and diagnosing the issues they are challenged with which will guide my practice as to what to or not to do with them as I will be able to predict how they will act in certain occurrences. In addition, knowledge of client’s traits and disposition can be helpful in assisting clients in selecting careers based on such
There are many theories of attribution, however, of the two most influential, I prefer the Jones and Davis (1965) Theory of Correspondent Inference. This theory states that the overt actions displayed by individuals determine their traits or character. This is done by carefully observing the persons behaviour over a period of time. For instance, if there is a co-worker who is always kind, smiling, polite and always gives good advice, we can categorize the trait or this person as agreeableness and say the person is a good character. However, this theory may not always be as easy as it seems in the aforementioned scenario …show more content…
Also, in understanding their behaviours it will help counsellors gain knowledge of their traits and disposition (attributes). This will help me in understanding my clients and diagnosing the issues they are challenged with which will guide my practice as to what to or not to do with them as I will be able to predict how they will act in certain occurrences. In addition, knowledge of client’s traits and disposition can be helpful in assisting clients in selecting careers based on such