PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Cognitive Dissonance, Amygdala, Pluralistic Ignorance

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: John Vervaeke

Document Summary

Attribution theory: provides a framework to understand the reasons behind the actions of others. Dispositional/internal causes: personality traits and characteristics of the person. Situational/external causes: function of the environment and situation. Kelley"s covariation model asserts that a single exposure to a person is insufficient to form accurate attributions, meaning multiple observation of behaviour overtime in a variety of different contexts are required to assess the source of another"s behaviour. Consistency: how a person acts in the same situation across time. Distinctiveness: whether the person behaves similarly across different situations/contexts. Consensus: compares the extent to which an individual"s behaviour resembles the behaviour of others. Internal attributions are made when an individual has high consistency, low distinctiveness, and low consensus. External attributions are made when there is low consistency, high distinctiveness, and high consensus. Explains how we assign attributes to self and others. Based on this, we attribute the behaviour of others to dispositional causes and our own behaviour to environmental.