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attribution theory
- explanations of the causes of our own and others
behaviour and the outcomes of behaviour (success /
failure) which helps us to understand our social world
- causes may be seen to lay a person
(dispositional) or in the environment (situational)
- Jones & Davis claim we make distributional attributions
since they have a greater predictive value in terms of
how a person may behave in similar situations
- Kelley's covariation model suggests we infer causes by
considering information about consensus (other people
behave like this), consistency (always in similar situations),
and distinctiveness (same in other situations)
- vignette study by McArthur found patterns of CCD
information - high consistency and low consensus /
distinctiveness leading to dispositional attributions -
other patterns leading to situational attributions
- low ecological validity
- low ecological validity
- vignette study by McArthur found patterns of CCD
information - high consistency and low consensus /
distinctiveness leading to dispositional attributions -
other patterns leading to situational attributions
- make some contribution to understanding of social cognition
- criticized for over-emphasis of role
of logical reasoning in attributing
cases to behaviour as judgments
are prone to errors and biases
- concern with why people do
things may be more to do with
social accountability than need to
find causal explanations
- criticized for over-emphasis of role
of logical reasoning in attributing
cases to behaviour as judgments
are prone to errors and biases
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