PSYC 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cognitive Dissonance, Role Conflict, Groupthink
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Attribution: an explanation of the cause of a person"s behavior (including our own) External attribution: the inference that a person is behaving a certain way because of something outside of the person (environment, situation, task difficulty, assumption is that anyone would respond the same way in that same situation. Says we look for a pattern between the behavior and the presence or absence of possible causes > internal/external attributions: consensus, consistency, distinctiveness. Consensus: the degree to which other people"s behavior is similar in that situation. Do all goalies let in a lot of goals against vancouver. Does everyone we"ve ever dated act the same way. Consistency: the degree to which the person behaves similar in similar circumstances. Distinctiveness: the degree to which the person behaves the same way to different stimuli. Low consensus, high consistency, low distinctiveness= internal attribution. High consensus, low consistency, high distinctiveness = external attribution.
