PSY 319K Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Units Of Paper Quantity, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism
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From acts to dispositions: inferring the causes of behavior: understanding causal attributions is crucial to understanding everyday social behavior, the attributions we make can greatly affect our thoughts, feelings, and future behavior. The pervasiveness and importance of causal attribution: people"s e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374)s ha(cid:448)e t(cid:396)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)dous (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)es i(cid:374) a (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) of a(cid:396)eas, i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g health and education. Explanatory style and attribution: explanatory style dimensions: Attributions about controllability: attributions for failure that imply controllability make it easier to persevere, we can always try harder. If (cid:449)e (cid:448)ie(cid:449) out(cid:272)o(cid:373)es as (cid:271)e(cid:455)o(cid:374)d ou(cid:396) (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol, it"s te(cid:373)pti(cid:374)g to gi(cid:448)e up: making people believe they can exert control over events that they formerly believed to be beyond their control restores hope and unleashes productive energy. Attribution and imagining alternative actors and outcomes: sometimes people base judgments on what they imagine would happen under different situations, or if a different individual were involved.
