PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fundamental Attribution Error, Ingroups And Outgroups, Learned Helplessness
1 Feb 2018
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Causal attributions: a judgement about the cause of someone"s behavior behavior as a basis for inferring their stable disposition. Theory of correspondent inference (jones & davis): a theory describing how we use other"s. Example: your friend got an a on the test: Consistency : the extent to which he reacts in the same way to the same stimulus over. Consensus : the extent to which others react the same way that he does to a stimulus. Distinctiveness : the extent to which the same person reacts in the same way to. Example: he always gets anxious in the presence of that dog. His behavior has high consistency , low consensus , and low distinctiveness. The augmenting principle : when a factor which might facilitate a behavior and one which might inhibit the same behavior are both present and the behavior occurs, we add weight to the behavior way to that dog.
