PSY E240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fundamental Attribution Error, Theory-Theory, Ethnocentrism
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3 main components of correspondent inference theory are: consensus, distinctiveness, consistency. Consistency information about whether a person"s behaviour toward a given stimulus is the same across time. Consensus the first component of covariation theory and it refers to whether other people generally agree or disagree with a given person. Distinctiveness refers to whether the person generally reacts in a similar way across different situations. This produces 8 different types of explanations for achievement (chart p. 112) People often tend to attribute their own success to internal factors. Failure is often blamed on external factors. A variation of the 3-dimensional model of attribution uses the dimensions of internal/external, stable/unstable, and global/specific. Intergroup attribution making attributions about one"s own and others behaviours based on group membership. Ethnocentrism a tendency to attribute desirable characteristics to one"s own group and undesirable characteristics to out-groups.
