PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Explanatory Style, Fundamental Attribution Error, Torero

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Attribution theory: a set of concepts explaining how people assign causes to the events around them and the effects of people"s (cid:272)ausal assess(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts. Example: believing that bill gates was a genius when he truly had more opportunities than others. Causal attribution: linking an event to a cause, such as inferring that a personality trait is responsible for a behavior. Explanatory style: a person"s ha(cid:271)itual (cid:449)a(cid:455) of e(cid:454)plai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g e(cid:448)e(cid:374)ts, t(cid:455)pi(cid:272)all(cid:455) assessed alo(cid:374)g three dimensions: internal/external, stable/unstable, and global/specific. Internal implies the self, while external does not. A stable cause implies that things will never change, while unstable implies that things may improve. A global cause affects many areas of life, while a specific cause applies only to a few. Pessimistic explanatory style: a tendency to explain negative events in term of internal, stable and global causes. Experiment: those people will get a lower gpa. Optimistic explanatory style: people with an optimistic personality style tend to be more external, unstable, and specific.

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