Lecture 9 Flashcards
Causal Attribution Model
Describes the processes for identifying the conditions that result in an action event
Consensus
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
Distinctiveness
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
Consistency
many stimulus or situation of the same type
- person respond in the same way to all situations over time
Covariation
an increase in the size or amount of one dimension results in a corresponding increase in the size or amount of another dimension
Covariation Principle
People use covariation information of time with actions either across people or across situations
Correspondence Bias (fundamental attribution error)
The tendency to make person attributions for behaviours that could be explained by the situation
Error = caused by the situation, person attribution
Evidence for the correspondence bias
- 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