GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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describes process people go through to explain the causes of behavior
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attributing one’s successes to personality factors & failures to external factors
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Explanation of other people’s behavior based on personality or external factors
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beliefs about groups in which we think we belong
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Detailed explanation-1: -The cognitive process by which people interpret the reasons or causes for their behavior is described by attribution theory. Specifically, “attribution theory concerns the process by which an individual interprets events as being caused by a particular part of a relatively stable environment.”
Detailed explanation-2: -In social psychology, attribution is the process of inferring the causes of events or behaviors. In real life, attribution is something we all do every day, usually without any awareness of the underlying processes and biases that lead to our inferences.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dispositional attribution assigns the cause of behavior to some internal characteristic of a person, rather than to outside forces. When we explain the behavior of others we look for enduring internal attributions, such as personality traits. This is known as the fundamental attribution error.
Detailed explanation-4: -Causal attributions refer to the retrospective explanation of outcomes of behavior by internal factors such as effort or ability and external factors such as task difficulty and luck.