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17 Cards in this Set
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Covariation Model
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3 aspects that influence the attributions we make:
Consensus, Distinctiveness, Consistancy |
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Consensus
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What do a lot of other people think?
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Distinctiveness
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How unual of distinvt is a person's attitude toward soemthing?
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Consistency
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how stable? (want this to be high:stable)
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Correspondent Inference Theory
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Look at Answer of 3 questions:
Does a person have choice to engage in action? Is the action expeced based on social role/circumstance? what are the intended effects of consequences of behavior? |
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Explain behavior?
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Personal/situation
internal/external |
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Fundamental attribution errors
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we have a tendency to think that people's behaviors is driven by internal factors. we rarely attribute them to the situation
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Jones & Harris (essay)
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Fitel Castro Essays still attributed to peoples' beliefs even when given no choice in what to write in essay
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Actor-observer effect
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When we look at others we make personal attributions
When we look at our own behavior (usually failures) we make situational attributes |
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Self-serving attributional bias
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when its our own behavior and we do well, we make personal attributions. Actors glad to own success
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Differential salience for actors verses observers
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different things are salient to different people in any situation
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storms
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make a dispositional attribution about self if you make yourself salient (movies/mirrors)
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not understanding why else a persona would engage in a given behavior
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attitudinall hard to understand why people would act in a given way
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fein, hilton & miller (student essay)
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subjects look at student essay. if told that student had a choice v. no choice...attibution about disposition still makde. if told that th student had ulterior motive-then subjects were less able to make attibution
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Gilbert et al (video of woman)
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silent video : told talking about sex/politics.
seemed more anxious when told talking about politics bc nothing to attribute anxiety to -if distracted, woman judged at same level of anxiousness...dont take situation into account in either circumstance |
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Motivation to create a desired impression
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cases which you want to make disserving attibutions.
take credit for bad attributions |
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Lee et al.
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looked at companies annual reports and how they attribute failures
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