PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fundamental Attribution Error, Dispositional Attribution
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Implicit beliefs about intelligence impact approach to challenging tasks: Intelligence unchangeable, then shy away from academic challenges. Intelligence malleable (increased through effort and persistence), then seek them out. Entity : attributes fixed, performance goals, document ability, avoid risk, ascribed. Incremental : attributes malleable (can be acquired, learning goals, develop ability (acquire/develop competence, seek challenge, achieved. Incremental (malleable): last outcome diagnostic; infer higher ability when performance improves. Study 1 - butler: 215 students (grades 8 & 9, manipulation, entity: studies show that mathematical ability does not change much throughout life . Implicit theories will moderate self appraisal: entity: document ability normative feedback diagnostic. Incremental document ability to acquire competence temporal feedback diagnostic: 398 pupils in grade 8 or 9, assess individual differences in implicit theories, perform spatial or verbal reassigning task, bogus feedback ( ), temporal feedback. Everyone has a certain amount of mathematical ability, and one can"t do much to change this amount .