20 minute essay

4/22/2012

Outline two errors in attribution. (2o minutes)

This requires a brief explanation of any 2 errors in attribution. List them here and give me a brief description. Go!

3 Comments

Steve Ski

4/22/2012 10:40:25 am

NO FLUFF, I LIKE IT!

attribution is how people explain relationships

1. SSB (self-serving bias). people take credit for successes and dissociate themselves from failures

2. fundamental attribution error- people place too much credit into dispositional factors and underestimate situational factors

situational factors are something to do with external factors
dispositional factors have to do with internal factors

Mrs. Brown

4/22/2012 10:57:38 pm

Great! This is only a 20 minute question, but if you have time to give examples of the 2 errors you pick it would help support your answer. You can make them up - they don't need to be something from the textbook.

Maiken Nicolaisen

4/24/2012 11:08:01 pm

There are 3 biases... As Steve has already mentioned 2, I will only mention the other.

Actor-Observer Effect: the tendency to attribute our own behavior to situational factors, but to blame the behavior of others on dispositional (internal factors, i.e. personality) factors.

Example: Let's say you're at a restaurant when you see a waitress acting out, for example talking rudely, the natural instinct is to explain her behavior by blaming it on her personality instead of looking for a situational (external) reason as to why she behaved like that, i.e. maybe she wasn't feeling well, she had a fallout with someone, someone was rude to her first, etc...

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