Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fritz Heider, Dispositional Attribution, Social Influence

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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11/24/2015 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Part 1: attribution theory perceiving the causes of behavior: fritz heider (1944) perceiving stability in an unstable world. Person attribution: aka dispositional , internal attributions, reflect stable properties of people. Environment attributions: aka situational , external attributions, reflect stable properties of environment, we have a need to perceive stability: Gives us a sense of understanding, prediction, and control. (cid:1) (cid:1: person attributions depend on perceived intentions. Equifinality: person"s behavior is directed toward a single goal. If no behavior is perceived as unintended (cant infer anything about person disp) If yes behavior is perceived as intended proceed to step 2 (cid:1) (cid:1) disposition) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Step 2: make a dispositional attribution (or correspondent inference ) An inference is correspondent when the same label (or word) can be used to describe both the behavior and the underlying disposition: ( ex. Conclude person is dispositionally friendly after observing friendly behavior)