PSYC 215 Chapter 5: CHAPTER 5 - Attribution
25 Apr 2016
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Attribution theory - how people justify the behaviors of others as well as their own behavior - and how these understandings influence emotional experience and subsequent behavior. Causal attribution - attributing an event to a cause: the way we attribute an occurrence entirely influences our response. How did you take it: explanatory style (experiment) ways in which people explain the cause given occurrences. Optimism and pessimistic explanatory styles can correlate to health and success. How controllable you believe an outcome can influence our action. Sex distinction girls more likely than boys to attribute failure to lack of ability. Augmentation principle if a subject acts opposite to what you expect from an external cause, it heightens the plausibility of an internal cause. (ex. They must be pleasant people, most people wouldn"t have been thrilled: out of role behavior more invocative of a persons true self. Counterfactual thoughts causal significance of an event influenced by.
