PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Rogue Trader, Situation Two, Dispositional Attribution
21 Apr 2016
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They argued that some persist has to do with their implicit theories about personality and whether traits are fixed are malleable. Implicit beliefs about intelligence impact approach to challenging tasks: If intelligence is unchangeable, then one might avoid academic challenges. If intelligence is malleable (can be increased through effort and persistence), then one might seek them out. Performance goals: seek out opportunities to document the fixed level of e. g. intelligence. Learning goals: attribute is reflected by how much we are able to improve on. Entity theorists: should focus on the first instance of performance. Should infer high ability even if performance is decreasing over time. Incremental theorists: should focus on what has been learned over time, focus on the final data point. Last data point is diagnostic of what the individual has acquired over time. Should infer higher ability, if temporal trend is going in upward direction. To test this idea: diagnosticity of temporal trends.
