Social Attribution

Question 1

Correspondent inference theory

Answer 1

• Looks to see if behavior corresponds with personality

- helps make dispositional and situational attributions

Question 2

Counterfactual thinking

Answer 2

-tendency to create alternative events to life events that have already occured

Question 3

Covariation theory

Answer 3

-People don’t only focus on single situations n
Instead, integrate lots of information ACROSS situations to make sense of people’s behavior

Consensus - do other people do this
Distinctiveness - does the person behave this way regularly
Consistency - do these pairings commonly occur

Question 4

Dispositional attribution

Answer 4

-attribution caused by interneral characteristics

Question 5

Distinctiveness

Answer 5

-does the person regularly behave this way

Question 6

Explanatory style

Answer 6

-indicates how people explain to themselves why they experiences a particular event

Question 7

External attribution

Answer 7

-attribution made about something outside the self, not dispositional

Question 8

Internal attribution

Answer 8

-dispositional attribution

Question 9

Perceptual salience

Answer 9

-When we act, notice the situation, when others act, notice the person.

Question 10

Personal attributions

Answer 10

-similar to dispositional

Question 11

Relationship attributions

Answer 11

-can determine how we look at others. Happy relationship - internal for good, external bad. oR vice versa for bad relationship

Question 12

Self serving bias

Answer 12

-tendency to attribute positive events to our own behavior

Question 13

Situational attribution

Answer 13

• tendency to attribute a persons behavior to a situation. same as external