Week 7 Flashcards
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What is attribution?
Attribution is the process of assigning a cause to our own behaviour and that of others.
What are conspiracy theories?
Conspiracy theory is an explanation of widespread, complex and worrying events in terms of the premeditated actions of small groups of highly organised conspirators.
What is a naive psychologist?
Naïve psychologists is a model of cognition that characterizes people as using rational, scientific like, cause-effect analyses to understand their world.
Native psychologist theory is by Heider.
What are people as naive psychologists trying to do?
Seeking to understand the causes of their own and other people’s behaviour.
What are the three principles of naive psychologist theory?
o discover other people’s motives
o focus on stable and enduring properties
o distinguish between factors
What are the two factors to distinguish between in the naive psychologist model?
Internal attribution and external attribution.
What is internal attribution?
Internal attribution is the process of assigning the cause of our own or others’ behaviour to internal or dispositional factors.
What is external attribution?
External attribution is assigning the cause of our own or other’s behaviour to external or environmental factors.
What is Jones’s and Davis’s theory about?
Correspondence inference.
What is correspondence inference?
Correspondence inference is causal attribution of behaviour to underlying dispositions.
According to correspondence inference, what is a dispositional cause?
:A dispositional cause is a stable one and a predictable attribution leads to a sense of control.
According to Jone’s and Davis’ theories, what are the five sources of information?
freely choosen, non common effect, socially desirable behaviour, hedonic relevance and personalism.
According to Jones’s and Davis theories, why is freely choosen a source of information?
Freely chosen is more indicative of a disposition than behaviour that is clearly under the control of external threats, inducements and constraints.
According to Jone’s and Davis’s theories, why is personalism a source of information?
Personalism is that behaviour that appears to be directly intended to benefit or harm oneself rather than others.
According to Jones’s and Davis theories, what is hedonic relevance?
Hedonic relevance refers to behaviour that has important direct consequences for self.
According to Jones’ and Davis theories, what does socially desirable behaviour?
Socially desirable behaviour tells us little about a person’s disposition because it is likely to be influenced by social norms.
According to Jones’s and Davis theories, what do non common effects tell us as a source of information?
Behaviours with effects that are relatively exclusive to that behaviour rather than common to a range of other behaviours tell us more about social dispositions.
Are people good scientists when it comes to make attributions?
No.
Why are people poor scienticists when making attributions?
A tendency to attribute others’ behaviour dispositionally and their own behaviour externally and a tendency to protect the self concept by externally attributing their own failures and internally attributing their successes.
What is covariation model?
Covariation model is theory of causal attribution-people assign the cause of behaviour to the factor that covaries most closely with the behaviour. The three pieces of information with use:
What are the three pieces of information used in the covariation model?
Consistency information, distinctiveness information and consensus information.
What is a causal schemeta?
Causal schemata is that experience based beliefs about how certain types of cause interact to produce an effect.
What is discount?
Discount is that if there is no consistent relationship between a specific cause and a specific behaviour, that cause is discounted in favour of some other cause.
What is consistency information?
Consistency information is information about the extent to which a behaviour Y always co-occurs with a stimulus X.
