PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tunxis Community College, Fundamental Attribution Error, Fidel Castro

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 240
• Professor: Marselle

Document Summary

Weinder developed framework for attribution based on achievement. People attribute their own failure to external factors (task difficulty) and others failure to internal factors (ability) Attributions can also be made on an intergroup basis, when individuals make attributions for their behavior based on their membership in a group and attributions about others behavior based on the others being members of a different group) Intergroup membership: making attributions about one"s own behavior and others" behavior based on group membership. Ethnocentrism: one characteristic of intergroup attribution; refers to attributing desirable characteristics to one"s own group while attributing undesirable characteristics to members of outgroups. Research focus on gender: gender differences in attribution. Research found that observers tend to attribute men"s successes to ability and women"s successes to effort. This pattern reverses for failure: observers see men"s poor performance as caused by bad luck or low effort; women"s poor performance as caused by lack of ability.