SOP 3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dispositional Attribution, Learned Helplessness
13 Jul 2016
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Castro essay: we still make dispositional attributions when we know people dont have a choice. We can make dispositional attributions when people act counter to their roles. Discounting principle: as social perceivers we discouunt any one candidate as a potential cause for anoutcome to the extent that other causal candidates are available: ex. someone gets in a car crash. Depends, the more possible factors like weather, business of road. Augmentation principle:some things faciliatae outcomes some inhibit outcomes. Weiners model: concerned primarily with achievement: 3 categories of attributions. Stable vs. unstable: causal factors are always present, vs sometimes its not present. External attributions: external, stable, uncontrollable, unfair teacher, external, unstable, uncontrollable, noise outside room, external, stable, controllable, person nextto me distracting, external, unstable, controllable, pen broke( car broke) This theory shows that attributions are in the eyes of the beholder, no common standard in how events are perceived. What decreases motivation following failusru: stable, uncontrollable attributions (internal or external)
