PSYB10H3 Chapter 5: Chapter 5
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Attribution theory the study of how people understand the causes of events. From acts to dispositions: inferring the causes of. Causal attribution the construal process people use to explain both their own and others" behavior. When you get an exam back, you"re not simply happy or sad about the grade you received. If the grade is a good one, you might decide this is just another example of how smart and hardworking you are, or you might attribute the grade to luck or easy grading. A person"s habitual way of explaining events, and it"s assessed along three dimensions: internal/external, stable/unstable, and global/specific. An explanation that mentions an internal cause implicates the self. There i go again but an external cause does not. That was the pickiest set of questions i"ve ever seen. A stable cause implies that things will never change. An unstable cause implies that things may improve. The cold medicine i was taking made me groggy.
