Lecture 9

Question 1

Causal Attribution Model

Answer 1

Describes the processes for identifying the conditions that result in an action event

Question 2

Consensus

Answer 2

Comparison with other people
- people responds in the same way to a particular situation with other people
- general agreement on people’s behaviour to a situation

consensus - attribute to situation
no consensus - attribute to person

Question 3

Distinctiveness

Answer 3

Comparison with other situations
- person responds in a unique way to one specific situation
- person responds in a different way to other events

distinctiveness - attribute to situation
no distinctiveness - attribute to person

Question 4

Consistency

Answer 4

many stimulus or situation of the same type
- person respond in the same way to all situations over time

Question 5

Covariation

Answer 5

an increase in the size or amount of one dimension results in a corresponding increase in the size or amount of another dimension

Question 6

Covariation Principle

Answer 6

People use covariation information of time with actions either across people or across situations

Question 7

Correspondence Bias (fundamental attribution error)

Answer 7

The tendency to make person attributions for behaviours that could be explained by the situation

Error = caused by the situation, person attribution

Question 8

Evidence for the correspondence bias

Answer 8

• people prefer working with simpler framworks for explaining actions and behaviours even though this process may lead to the fundamental attribution error
• people are more familiar about the causal rules underlying people attribution than single attribution
• people do not fully understand how situations can cause actions