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18 Cards in this Set
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actor-observer difference
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differences in attribution based on who is making the causal assessment: the actor (makes situational attributions) or the observer (makes dispositional attributions)
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attribution
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linking a cause to an instance of behavior
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attribution theory
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people assign cuases to the events around them and the effects that people's causal assessments have
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augmentation theory
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the idea that we should assign greater weight to a paritcular cause of behavior if there are other causes present that normally would produce the opposite outcome
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augmentation principle
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the idea that we shoudl assign greater weight to a particular cause of behavior if there are other causes present that normally would produce the opposite outcome
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consensus
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refers to what most people would do in a given situation that is whether most people would behave the same way or few or noother people would behave that way
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consistency
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refers to what an individual does in a given situation on difference occassions that is whether next time the behavior under the same circumstances would be the smae or would differ
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counterfactual thoughts
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thoughts of hwat might have could have or should have happened if only something had been done differently
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correspondance bias
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the tendneyc to draw an inference about a person that corresonds to the behavior observed, also referred to s the fundamental attirubution error
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covariation principle
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the idea that we should attribute behavior to potential cuases that cooccur with the behavior
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discounting princple
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the idea that we should assign reduced weight to a particular cause of behavior if there are other plausible causes that might have produced it
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distinctiveness
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refers to what an individual does in a different situations that is whether the behavior is unique to a parituclar situation or occurs in all situation
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emotional amplification
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a ratcheting up of an emotional reaction to an event that is proportional to how easy it is to imagine the event no happening
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explanatory style
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a person's habitual way of explaining events, typically assessed along three dimensions: internality/externality, stability/instability and globality/specificity
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false consensus effect
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the tendency for people to think their behavior is relatively common
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fundamental attributino error
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believing that behavior is due to a person's disposition rather htan the situation which the person finds himself
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just world hypothesis
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the belief that people get what they deserve in life and deserve what they get
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self-serving bias
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the tendency to attribute failure and other bad events to external circumstances but to attribute success and other good events to oneself
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