Social Attribution Flashcards

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Attribution Theory

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How people assign causes to the events around them, and the effects of their causal assessments

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Causal Attribution

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Liking an event to a cause, such as inferring that a personality trait is responsible for a behavior

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Internal vs. External

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Degree that cause is linked to the self or to the external situation

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Stable vs. Instable

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Degree that the cause is seen as fixed it as something that is temporary

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Global vs. Specific

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Degree that the cause is seen as affecting other domains in life or is restricted to affecting one specific domain

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Consensus

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What most people would do in a given situation

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Distinctiveness

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What an individual does in different situations

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Consistency

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What an individual does in a given situation on different occasions

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Discounting Principle

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Tendency to attach less importance to one potential cause of some behavior when other potential causes are also present

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Augmentation Principle

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Tendency to attach greater importance to a potential cause of behavior if the behavior occurs despite the presence of other, inhibitory causes

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Self Serving Attributional Bias

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Tendency to attribute ones own failure and other bad events to external circumstances, and to attribute his/her success and other good events to oneself

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Just World Hypothesis

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Belief that people get what they deserve in life and deserve what they get

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