PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Fundamental Attribution Error, Collectivism, Masturbation
2 Mar 2013
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Making attriubtions in intercultural interactions culture becomes an important factor when we answer why things happen in our life types of explanations: ability. I got 57% because the exam was difficult. Succeed, you say it was external factors: effort, luck. I did well because i studied and came to all lectures. I got 57% because i was unlucky too many questions from the section i did not read. Cultures tend to use different explanations for success and failure. Miller (1984: participants: american and asian indians of varying ages, they had to describe the cause of actions they had observed in their lives. Age 8, we find no difference between american and indian. But as people get older and enculturated, the style of attribution came to vary. Amongst american, we find more internal attribution it increases the events that happen to them are based on internal factors.
