Attribution

Question 1

Attribution

Answer 1

is the process by which people explain the causes of their own and other people’s behaviour.

Question 2

Internal attribution

Answer 2

When we judge behaviour as being caused by something personal within an individual

Question 3

External attribution

Answer 3

when we determined the cause of a behaviour as resulting from situational factors occurring outside the individual

Question 4

Fundamental attribution error

Answer 4

The tendency to overestimate personal factors and underestimate the impact of situational factors on other behaviours

Question 5

Actor-observer bias

Answer 5

Tendency to attribute our own behaviours on situational/external factors while attributing others behaviours to internal factors

Question 6

Self-serving bias

Answer 6

when judging ourselves we tend to take credit for our successors and attribute our failures to situational factors