Lecture 2

Question 1

Heider’s “Naive Psychcology”

Answer 1

• People are driven to determine the causes of others behaviour in an effort to predict and control their environment
• Internal attributes
• External attributes

Question 2

Jones and Davis’ (1965) correspondent inference theory

Answer 2

The challenge of attribution is to determine whether a person’s behaviour corresponds to underlying, stable qualities in the person

Question 3

Kelly’s (1967) covariation (ANOVA) model

Answer 3

Attributions depend on the assessment of three sources of information, consistency, distincitveness, and consensus

Question 4

Consistency

Answer 4

Does this person-stimulus interaction occur across different situations, or only this situation?

Question 5

Distinctiveness

Answer 5

Does this person have this effect on all stimuli, or only this stimulus?

Question 6

Consensus

Answer 6

Do other people have this effect on the stimulus, or is it onnly this person?

Question 7

Having high consistency, distinctiveness and consensus will lead to what attribution?

Answer 7

External

Question 8

Discounting principle

Answer 8

Any one factor is discounted as a function of presence of other potential causes

Question 9

Augmenting principle

Answer 9

The role of a potential cause is enhanced in the presence of other inhibiting factors

Question 10

Weiner’s attribution theory

Answer 10

There can be 6 attributions made, internal/external, stable/unstable, or controllable/uncontrollable