SOCIOL 4508 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dispositional Attribution, Fundamental Attribution Error, Motor Vehicle Theft

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 4508
• Professor: Lynette Martin

Document Summary

Studying violent crime: uniform crime survey (ucr) data comes from police reports, complied and put together by fbi, part i violence index crimes homicide, aggravated assault, rape, Ii: focuses on the situational factors that lead to aggression present circumstances rather than past history. Speaker state signal any behavior a listener performs to tell the speaker that he wants to talk: gestures (cid:455)ou (cid:373)ake (cid:449)he(cid:374) so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s talki(cid:374)g sig(cid:374)ali(cid:374)g (cid:455)ou want to talk. Back channel behaviors any behavior a listener performs to signal the speaker that he is listening: noddi(cid:374)g (cid:455)our head (cid:449)hile so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s talki(cid:374)g or (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g faces in agreeance, attributing causality: internal vs external, 2 types of attributions: e. g. Dispositional attribution: wie(cid:374)er"s theor(cid:455) of a(cid:272)hie(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t moti(cid:448)atio(cid:374) (reasons behind success or failures, 2 different dimensions, ____________________ dispositional vs situational attribution, stability stable trait (longlasting) vs unstable, 4 reasons for success or failure: Luck: self-serving bias deals with achievement situations. If fail attribute to external stable factors e. g. task difficulty.