Week Nine

Question 1

Consensus

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Distinctiveness

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Consistency

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Covariation

Answer 4

An increase in the size or amount of one dimension results in a corresponding increase in the size or amount of another dimension
(correlated variation)

Question 5

Covariation principle

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Correspondence bias (Fundamental Attribution Error)

Answer 6

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