PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Explanatory Style, Attribution Bias, Covariance
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People differ in their explanatory styles; that is, they differ in whether they tend to make attributions that are external or internal, stable or unstable, global or speci c. Attributional style predicts academic success as well as health and longevity. Belief in the controllability of outcomes is important, and beliefs about the controllability of academic outcomes can be altered by training. Boys and girls learn to draw different conclusions about academic outcomes. What most people would do in a given situation; that is, whether most people would behave the same way, or few or no other people would behave that way: distinctiveness. What an individual does in different situations; that is, whether the behaviour is unique to a particular situation, or occurs in all situations: consistency. What an individual does in a given situation on different occasions; that is, whether next time, under the same circumstances, the person would behave the same or differently.
