PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fundamental Attribution Error, Attribution Bias, Explanatory Style
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Casual attribution is linking an event to a cause, such as inferring that a personality trait is responsible for a behavior. Attribution theory is a ect of concepts explaining how people assign causes to the events around them and the effects of peoples"s casual assessments. The pervasiveness and importance of casual attribution. Attributions are a constant part of mental life. People"s explanations have tremendous consequences in a number of areas, including health and education. The optimistic tendency for failure presumably make us less prone to despair and encourages more of a can-do outlook that promotes life-benefiting behavior. ) Attributions about controllability: attributions for failure indicate controllability (lack of effort or lack of talent). If one views outcomes as beyond control, it"s tempting to simply give up as it"s rational. People can be trained to adopt more productive attributional tendencies for academic outcomes.
