Social Attribution

Question 1

Attribution Theory

Answer 1

How people assign causes to the events around them, and the effects of their causal assessments

Question 2

Causal Attribution

Answer 2

Liking an event to a cause, such as inferring that a personality trait is responsible for a behavior

Question 3

Internal vs. External

Answer 3

Degree that cause is linked to the self or to the external situation

Question 4

Stable vs. Instable

Answer 4

Degree that the cause is seen as fixed it as something that is temporary

Question 5

Global vs. Specific

Answer 5

Degree that the cause is seen as affecting other domains in life or is restricted to affecting one specific domain

Question 6

Consensus

Answer 6

What most people would do in a given situation

Question 7

Distinctiveness

Answer 7

What an individual does in different situations

Question 8

Consistency

Answer 8

What an individual does in a given situation on different occasions

Question 9

Discounting Principle

Answer 9

Tendency to attach less importance to one potential cause of some behavior when other potential causes are also present

Question 10

Augmentation Principle

Answer 10

Tendency to attach greater importance to a potential cause of behavior if the behavior occurs despite the presence of other, inhibitory causes

Question 11

Self Serving Attributional Bias

Answer 11

Tendency to attribute ones own failure and other bad events to external circumstances, and to attribute his/her success and other good events to oneself

Question 12

Just World Hypothesis

Answer 12

Belief that people get what they deserve in life and deserve what they get