Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ultimate Attribution Error, Ben Scrivens, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

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Attribution theory: a description of how we go about explaining the causes of people"s behavior (including our own: basically, how did we decided between options a) through d) to explain our date"s behavior? . Note: focus is not on the actual case, but rather how we decide what we think is the cause. Instead, it"s all about how we decide on what we think is the cause: for example, maybe i think that our date is a secret agent. But, maybe you think that she was just distracted due to family issues, like a member of her family in the hospital: attribution theory doesn"t really deal with which one is correct? . Internal (personal) attribution: the inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something about that person: e. g. personality, intelligence, ability, effort, etc, bill insulted carl because bill is a rude person. An internal trait might be something like the person"s personality, intelligence, effort, etc