PSYC 2230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Role Theory, Learned Helplessness, Anders Behring Breivik

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: Frank Marchese

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1. that can explain how we come to the conclusions we do about the causes of behaviour. The assignment of causes to behaviour is not done randomly; that is, rules exist: beck has pointed out the conceptual similarity between expectancies and attributions. An expectancy is a belief (cognition) that one thing will follow from another attribution is a belief that one thing has followed as a result of another thing. Attribution is a belief but it"s often the reverse of an expectancy; that is, an. The causes attributed to particular behaviours will influence subsequent: the attributions we make, then, may activate other motives. Intention: the cognitive plan to behave in a particular way. Exertion: the amount of effort that one is willing to put into: situational (external) attribution b. behaviour. Attribution theory 2: the jones and davis correspondent inference. The no-choice condition) or if the student was allowed to choose which position to take (ex.