CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -You took one look at Elijah and thought he was bright, caring, and understanding. Your behaviors subtly brought out those qualities in Elijah. How can this best be explained? Self-fulfilling prophecy.

Detailed explanation-2: -One amusing example of the actor-observer effect is teenage drivers’ tendency to attribute their own risky driving to situational factors, such as running late. But they attribute their peers’ risky driving to personal factors, such as trying to “act cool” (Harre et al., 2004).

Detailed explanation-3: -In other words, actors explain their own behavior differently than how an observer would explain the same behavior. Example: Actor-observer bias As you are walking down the street, you trip and fall. You immediately blame the slippery pavement, an external cause.

Detailed explanation-4: -Looking at situations from an insider or outsider perspective causes people to see situations differently. People are more likely to consider situational forces when attributing their actions. Yet they focus on internal characteristics or personality traits when explaining other people’s behaviors.

Detailed explanation-5: -Actors and observers give different explanations for the same events. Observers tend to make Dispositional attributions for actors behavior. Actors tend to make situational attributions for own behavior. Linking an instance of behavior to a cause.