SOCY 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fundamental Attribution Error, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Social Representation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 273
• Professor: Robyn Sattlink

Document Summary

Kelley"s model is seen as a dominant approach to attribution; we try to see if the behaviour is external or internal and what caused us to behave this way. Idealised model of how we can and should make attributions if we have sufficient time, information, and motivation. Example: ta gives a harsh criticism about your presentation. Concerns the way we look for a broad fit between the outcome we are trying to explain and the possible cause or causes that may have brought it about. If the outcome is rare, you will need many outcomes to understand it, thus causal schema is introduced. Causal schema: the person"s sense of what sort of causal arrangement might explain the thing they are trying to explain. Rare of difficult outcome: multiple necessary cause schema: trying to explain the outcome by many factors, like i studied hard so i deserved the mark (e. g. got a 90% on a test rare outcome)