PSYC 2120 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Notes.docx

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Attribution theories: attributions: causal judgments about why an event or behavior occurred. Judgments about the causes of peoples actions and outcomes are made constantly and have important implications for our own behavior: attribution theories are models that attempt to outline the processes underlying judgments of cause. Intuitive scientist: untrained scientists who try to make causal judgments in a rational, scientific manner. covariation model of attribution y an attribution theory proposing that we make causal judgments by determining whether a particular behavior correlated with a person, situation, or some combination of persons and situations: false consensus effect. when individuals have personal experience with a situation they usually assume that most other people would respond similarly to themselves, and they draw conclusions about the cause of behavior based on this assumption. Believe that our opinions are accurate and our actions: discounting and augmentation are appropriate.