L2 Social Cognition Flashcards
(20 cards)
what is attribution
process of assigning a cause to our own and others behaviour
causal attribution
inference process through which perceivers attribute an effect to one or more causes
what is a naive scientist
rational in making cause-effect attributions
intuitionist
limited info driven by motivations
cognitive miser
quick decisions to conserve mental efforts
motivated tactician
think carefully about personally important things, use heuristics for less important things
4 theories of attribution
Naive psychologist
Attributional theory
Correspondent inference theory
Covariation model
3 principles of naive psychologist
search for motives in others behaviour
looking for enduring properties that cause behaviour
search for intentions- personal vs external factors
anthropomorphise
assigning human intentions to non human objects
attributional theory (Weiner 1979)
credits success/failure to three dimensions
locus- internal or external
stability- is the cause stable or unstable
controllability- is it effort or luck
correspondent inference theory
how people infer that a persons behaviour is due to an underlying disposition (quality/ personality trait)
5 cues of correspondent inference theory
freely chosen behaviour
act produced a non-common effect (intentional)
not socially desirable
hedonic relevance (important consequences suggest its thought out)
personalism
co variation model (ANOVA)
consistency, distinctiveness, consensus
what is fundamental attribution error
tendency to attribute behaviour to (internal) enduring dispositions despite clear situational causes
what is the false consensus effect
seeing our own behaviour as being more typical than it actually is
why does the false consensus effect exist?
seek out similar others
our own opinions eclipse possibility of alternative opinions
what are 4 attribution biases
false consensus
fundamental attribution error
actor- observer bias
self-serving bias
correspondence error is the same as….
fundamental attribution error
what is the actor observer effect
tendency to attribute our own behaviours externally and other’s behaviour internally
what is self-serving bias
attributional distortions that protect or enhance self esteem
success = internal
failure = external
