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17 Cards in this Set
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Naive Psychology |
The theory that people practice a form of untrained psychology as they use cause and effect analyses to understand their world and other people's behaviour. |
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External Attributions |
Seeing the behaviour as caused by something external to the person who performs the behaviour. |
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Internal Attributions |
Refers to whether the person's behaviour is caused by personal factors, such as traits, ability, effort, or personality. |
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Jones and Davis' Theory of Correspondent Inference |
People Infer whether a person's behaviour is caused by the person's internal disposition by looking at various factors related to the person's action. |
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Kelley's Covariation Theory |
Focuses on the factors that are present when a behaviour occurs and the factors that are absent when it doesn't occur. (factors=consensus, distinctiveness and consistency). |
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Consensus |
refers to whether other people generally agree or disagree with a given person. |
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Distinctiveness |
Refers to whether the person generally reacts in a similar way across different situations. |
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Consistency |
Whether the person's attitude and/or behaviour is similar over time. |
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Weine'rs Attribution Theory |
People attribute their achievements in terms of three dimensions: locus, stability and controllability. |
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Intergroup Attribution |
When individuals make attributions for their behaviour based on their membership in a group and attributions about other's behaviour based on being members of a different group. |
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Ethnocentrism |
Attributing desirable characteristics to one's own group while attributing undesirable characteristics to members of outer groups. |
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Gender Diffs in Attribution |
Observers tend to attribute men's success to ability and women's success to effort. |
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Fundamental Attribution Error |
The tendency to overestimate the role of personal causes and underestimate the role of situational causes in explaining behaviour. |
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Actor-Observer Effect |
We are very likely to focus on the role of the situation in causing our own behaviour. |
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Two stage model of Attribution |
we first automatically interpret another person's behaviour as caused by his or her disposition, and only later adjust our interpretation by taking into account situational factors that may have contributed to the behaviour. |
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Self-Knowledge |
Because we see ourselves behaving in various situations, we have more info about our behaviour. |
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Cultural Display Rules |
Rules in a culture that govern how to express universal emotions. |
