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What is attribution theory concerned with?
What is attribution theory concerned with?
- How people interact with each other.
- How people arrive at causal explanations for events. (correct)
- How people perceive themselves.
- How people form opinions about others.
According to Heider, what are people trying to do when they make sense of the social world?
According to Heider, what are people trying to do when they make sense of the social world?
- Be better psychologists.
- Act like scientists. (correct)
- Form opinions about others.
- Understand the world around them.
What is dispositional attribution?
What is dispositional attribution?
- Assigning the cause of behavior to external factors.
- Judging behavior based on consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency.
- Inferring that a person's behavior matches their personality.
- Assigning the cause of behavior to internal characteristics of a person. (correct)
What is situational attribution?
What is situational attribution?
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What is correspondent inference?
What is correspondent inference?
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According to Jones and Davis, what are the five sources of information used to make correspondent inferences?
According to Jones and Davis, what are the five sources of information used to make correspondent inferences?
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What is Kelley's covariation model?
What is Kelley's covariation model?
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Study Notes
- Attribution theory deals with how people arrive at causal explanations for events.
- Heider believed people are naive psychologists trying to make sense of the social world.
- Dispositional attribution assigns the cause of behavior to internal characteristics of a person.
- Situational attribution assigns the cause of behavior to external factors.
- Jones and Davis' correspondent inference theory explains the process of making internal attributions.
- Correspondent inference is when an observer infers that a person's behavior matches their personality.
- Jones and Davis use five sources of information to make correspondent inferences.
- Kelley's covariation model is a logical model for judging whether behavior should be attributed to an individual or environment.
- The covariation model considers consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency of behavior.
- People act like scientists in trying to discover the causes of behavior.
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