PSYC 360 Lecture 4: Social Psych - 7 Feb
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We tend to make internal attributions for other people"s behavior. Perceptually, we focus on people and overlook the situation (external explanation) Wanted to be able to answer when people are going to make internal vs. external attribution. A theory that states that to form an attribution about what caused a person"s behavior, we systematically note the pattern between the presence or absence of possible causal factors and whether or not the behavior occurs. Kelly"s co-variation model focuses on how behavior co-varies. Occurs when consensus is low and behavior is unique to one person. Distinctiveness is low, persona displays same behavior with different targets and in different situations. Consistency is high, the person"s behavior occurs reliably across occasions and the person is consistently late for class (class is the occasion) Occurs when consensus is high, other people behave similarly in the same situation (if everyone is late for class)
