PSYCH 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fritz Heider, Dispositional Attribution, Fundamental Attribution Error
1 Feb 2017
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Inferences about the causes of behavior: how we explain behavior (our own or others, why did he/she do that, attribution theories: theories about how people explain behavior, not how they should. 2/1 explain behavior: father of attribution theory: Caused by something about the person: ituatio(cid:374)al (cid:894)(cid:862)exter(cid:374)al(cid:863)(cid:895) attri(cid:271)utio(cid:374)s. Ex: a man has a banana in his ear. Dispositional attribute: this man likes to put bananas in his ear. Situational attribute: it is loud in the room and the banana was the only thing nearby: covariation theory (kelly, 1967) Consistency: whether or not this person usually acts the same in the same situation. Consensus: whether or not other people usually act this way in the same situation. Distinctiveness: whether or not this person usually acts the same in other situations. The chicken always crosses the road (high consistency) No other chickens cross this road (low consensus) Dispositional attribution: hi consistency, lo consensus, lo distinctiveness.
