Understanding Attribution in Psychology Quiz

Attribution in psychology involves explaining the reasons behind someone's actions.

Internal attribution involves attributing behavior to personal characteristics, like being naturally outgoing.

Internal attributions involve personal traits, while external attributions relate to situational influences on behavior.

Conformity is not a factor in Kelley's covariation model, which focuses on consensus, consistency, and distinctiveness.

The self-serving bias involves attributing personal failures to external causes and personal successes to internal attributes.

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overemphasize personal factors and underestimate situational influences on behavior.

Correspondent inference theory posits that individuals attribute others' behavior to internal or external causes based on their actions.

The fundamental attribution error concerns others, attributing their actions internally, while the actor-observer bias relates to self, attributing our actions externally.

Culture shapes the significance placed on internal or external attributions in explaining behavior.

Internal locus of control involves believing one's actions shape outcomes, while external locus of control involves attributing outcomes to external forces.

Consensus, in attribution theory, refers to the degree to which others exhibit similar behavior in a particular situation.

The discounting principle in attribution theory asserts that when multiple causes exist for an event, the weight of each cause is diminished.

In Weiner's attribution theory of achievement, the dimension of stability influences the emotional response to success or failure.

The actor-observer bias is the inclination to attribute others' actions internally while attributing our own actions externally.

Attributional style is the consistent manner in which individuals explain the reasons behind events in their lives.