PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Superior Temporal Sulcus, Dispositional Attribution, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Na ve psychology: heider"s theory that people practice a form of untrained psychology as they use cause and effect analyses to understand their world and other people"s behaviour. External attributions: seeing the behaviour as caused by something external to the person who performs the behaviour. Internal attribution: refers to whether the person"s behaviour is caused by personal factors, such as traits, ability, effort, personality. Correspondent inference theory: the theory that people infer whether a person"s behaviour is caused by the person"s internal disposition by looking at various factors related to the person"s action. We are best able to make a dispositional attribution, and see peoples" b as caused by their traits, when the behaviour is freely chosen, is not a function of situational expectations, and has clear non-common effects. Distinctiveness: refers to whether the person generally reacts in a similar way across different situations.
