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Attitudes + Attributions Flashcards

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What is an attitude?

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evaluation a person makes about a person, object, issue, group or event. learned through exposure to environemtn, can be positive and negative

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What is an attirbution?

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It is the process of attaching meaning to behaviouur by looking for a reason to explain behaviour

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what is internal attribution?

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Personality/ disposition/ explaining behaviour due to characteristics of person.
Ex/ personality, attitude, mood, effort

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What is external attribution?

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situational/ explainging behaviour due to factors external of a person
Ex/ actions of another person, environment

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