5. Describe the role of situational and dispostional factors in explaining behaviour
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International Baccalaureate Psychology (Socio-Cultural level of analysis) Mapa Mental sobre 5. Describe the role of situational and dispostional factors in explaining behaviour, criado por lauren_walji em 01-10-2013.
5. Describe the role of situational and
dispostional factors in explaining behaviour
Dispostional causes:
This is when someone attributes the cause of
behaviour to their internal characteristics (their
beleifs, attitudes and personality). tend to be stable
factors
E.g. a student doing badly in a test because
they were too lazy to revise and therefore
their failure was due to their dispostion
Fundamental attribution error
Ross:
Aim: to see if student ppts would commit fundamental attribution error even when they knew actors were simply playing a role. Method: ppts randomly assigned gameshow host, player or audience. Hosts had to design question and audience had to watch gameshow and then rate the intelligence of the participants. Results
Situational causes:
Attributing the causes of behaviour to
external factors such as immediate rewards
and punishments in a social setting or
pressure. Tend to be transient factors
E.g.a student doing badly in a test becasue
the teacher was not very good and did not
teach the content in the test, failure therefore
due to their situation