What is attribution theory?
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What is attribution theory? What is the difference between dispositional and situational attribution? Which type of attribution do you find yourself using most often?
What are the steps that one takes to perceive the social world? Which one of these steps in the most crucial? Why?
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This solution discusses the attribution theory, and the differences between dispositional and situational attribution. It also describes the steps that one takes to perceive the social world, as well as which of the these steps in the most crucial, and why. Supplemented with an article on the biases of attributions.
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1. What is attribution theory? Which type of attribution do you find yourself using most often?
Attribution Theory: Attribution theory is a Social Psychological theory that relates to the way in which people explain their own behavior and that of others. According to this theory, people tend to attribute (or explain) psychological (dispositional) or external (situational) causes as the determining factor in behavior. For example, if someone acts mean to you one day, would you attribute the behavior to the person being a jerk (dispositional or internal attribution) or to the person having a bad day (situational or external attribution)? Attribution theory examines the ways in which people make these attributions (http://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.cfm?term=Attribution%20Theory).
Refer to the Fundamental Attribution Error (defined below), which relates directly to this theory.
b. What is the difference between dispositional and situational attribution?
Attribution is the ways in which we come to understand the causes of behavior (own and others) (http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~jcampbell/Chapter_4_overheads.htm). Technically speaking, attribution is the process by which people use information to make inferences about the causes of behavior or events. Simply put, ...
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