CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Jen believes that her little sister was crying because the family dog had just bitten her, Jen is making a(n) External/Situational Attribution about her behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -the ascription of one’s own or another’s behavior, an event, or an outcome to causes outside the person concerned, such as luck, pressure from other people, or external circumstances.

Detailed explanation-3: -Behaviors and events that are perceived as accidental are often attributed to situational factors. Examples of external attribution would be a person who blames the weather for their bike’s flat tire or a student who tells their teacher they did not turn in their homework because their dog ate it.

Detailed explanation-4: -In an internal, or dispositional, attribution, people infer that an event or a person’s behavior is due to personal factors such as traits, abilities, or feelings. In an external, or situational, attribution, people infer that a person’s behavior is due to situational factors.

Detailed explanation-5: -defensive attribution a bias or error in attributing cause for some event such that a perceived threat to oneself is minimized. For example, people might blame an automobile accident on the other driver’s mistake because this attribution lessens their perception that they themselves are responsible for the accident.