PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Explanatory Style, Dispositional Attribution, Covariance

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: John Lydon

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Explaining behavior attribution theory people assign causes to the events around them and the effects that people"s causal assessments have. An umbrella term used to describe the set of theoretical acconts of how. From acts to dispositions: inferring the causes of behavior causal attribution linking an event to a cause, such as inferring that a personality trait was responsible for a behavior. The pervasiveness and importance of causal attribution people"s explanations have tremendous consequences in a number of areas, including health and education. Explanatory style and attribution explanatory style a person"s habitual way of explaining events, typically assessed along three dimensions: internal/external people"s attitudes about controllability have a powerful affect on long-term consequences. Gender and attribution style boys are more likely than girls to attribute their failures to lack of effort girls are more likely to attribute their failures to lack of ability.