PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Zoophilia, Fundamental Attribution Error, Collectivism
1 Apr 2014
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How dif cult it was to achieve the desired outcome! How much work was put into the task! Cultures tend to use different explanations for success and failure! When you make an attribution about the past, the actor also makes the same attribution! Consistency between interpretation and person engaging in that behaviour ! Example: friend is sick in hospital- send friend owers and card: attribution made about. Example: japanese ! relationship between friends: they are distant (if they were close, they would have gone to the hospital)! In individualistic cultures people tend to focus on the individual as determining the cause of individual behaviour! behaviour:! People attribute success to ability and failure to external factors! In collectivistic cultures people tend to give greater emphasis to external causes of. People attribute success to help from others and failure to the lack of effort! Zhou yang, 18, received gold medal in the women"s 1500 metres short-track speed skating.
