Lecture 9 Flashcards

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Causal Attribution Model

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Describes the processes for identifying the conditions that result in an action event

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Consensus

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Comparison with other people
- people responds in the same way to a particular situation with other people
- general agreement on people’s behaviour to a situation

consensus - attribute to situation
no consensus - attribute to person

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Distinctiveness

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Comparison with other situations
- person responds in a unique way to one specific situation
- person responds in a different way to other events

distinctiveness - attribute to situation
no distinctiveness - attribute to person

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Consistency

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many stimulus or situation of the same type
- person respond in the same way to all situations over time

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Covariation

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an increase in the size or amount of one dimension results in a corresponding increase in the size or amount of another dimension

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Covariation Principle

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People use covariation information of time with actions either across people or across situations

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Correspondence Bias (fundamental attribution error)

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The tendency to make person attributions for behaviours that could be explained by the situation

Error = caused by the situation, person attribution

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Evidence for the correspondence bias

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  • people prefer working with simpler framworks for explaining actions and behaviours even though this process may lead to the fundamental attribution error
  • people are more familiar about the causal rules underlying people attribution than single attribution
  • people do not fully understand how situations can cause actions
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