Fundamental Attribution Error Flashcards
(33 cards)
Who objects to objective thought?
Merleau-Ponty
Is fundamental attribution error universal across cultures?
No
What becomes dominant in our perception when interacting with others?
Others behaviour
What is our natural attitude?
Predisposition towards social explanations
What was Heider’s model of the person?
Intuitive scientist, stores data about the world, summarises, analyses and interprets it with aim of formulating rules
Which existential phenomenologists emphasised the impossibility of achieving a value-free perspective?
Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
What is perceptual focussing?
Focussing on the person as opposed to situational background
What are the three types of information we look for in Kelley’s covariation model?
Consensus, distinctiveness and consistency
Whose two stage model provides a more widely supported explanation for attribution error?
Trope (1986)
What could be argued about phenomenologists?
Neglect unconscious processes and language
Who initiated the phenomenological movement?
Husserl
How do phenomenologists challenge the existence of the fundamental attribution error?
Cognitive processes are not important and individuals instantly perceive others through their senses
What is correspondence bias (Jones and Harris)?
Focus on internal dispositions as opposed to external situational factors
What was Merleau-Ponty’s focus?
Lived world and phenomenological approach.
What can affect fundamental attribution error?
Culture, age, mood, individual differences
What do individuals do to protect their self-esteem?
Make motivational attributions and use others opinions of their own dispositions and abilities
How have mainstream cognitive approaches sought to explain fundamental attribution error?
Individuals information processing and inherent bias
When did attribution theory emerge and with whom?
Late 1950’s. Fritz Heider
How does mood change fundamental attribution error?
Good mood enhances dispositional attributions, bad mood reduces them
What are the two stages of Tropes’ model?
Spontaneous identification and deliberate inferential processes
What is attribution theory?
Behaviour explanation
Who had similar views to Heider arguing against objective thought?
Merleau-Ponty (1962)
Who says that ‘behaviour should be understood as a product of both person and environment’?
Sabini et al (2001)
eg drug addict
What was Merleau-Ponty’s most valuable contribution to phenomenological thought?
Lived world (anti-dualist) with emphasis on perception as direct contact with the world
