attribution power point
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ATTRIBUTION
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WARM-UP GAME
Write 5 questions that are based on your own
knowledge?
(Examples: Who played catcher for the Boston Red
Sox in 2004? What college did Mr. Hausman attend?
What is the TuHS Cross-Country Record?)
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WARM-UP QUESTIONS
Describe a time when you or a team of yours had a big victory/success in your life. Why did this happen?
Describe a time when you or a team of yours had a big loss/defeat/failure in your life. Why did this happen?
Now consider… Compare the reasons behind each of these events? Are they
they same? Different? Do these reasons hold true for most examples?
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
SC.2.A. Describe the role of situational and dispositional factors
in explaining behaviour.
SC.2.B. Discuss two errors in attributions.
Note…The studies that we will discuss today will help answer
both of these learning outcomes. You should make a note of this
and do not say that you do not have studies to answer either of
these standards.
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SOCIAL COGNITION
How we process information in a social
world.
We take information in, make quick
judgments, and behave according to those
decisions.
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ATTRIBUTION
The process of interpreting and explaining
the causes of behaviors and events in the
social world.
How we decide why a person does what they do.
Humans have a need to understand why something
happens.
Social Cognition We do this all the time!
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TRY THIS…
How do you attribute The Bieb’s tirades?
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SITUATIONAL VS. DISPOSITIONAL
Situational Dispositional
External
environments cause
people to act the
way they do. Example: I wrote a bad
essay because I didn’t
get the prompt I wanted.
Internal characteristics
cause people to act the
way they do.
Example: I wrote a bad
essay because I decided not
to study.
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YOUR INSTRUCTIONS: GROUP A
Imagine that you got a speeding ticket driving
to school. Explain why this might have
happened.
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YOUR INSTRUCTIONS: GROUP B
Imagine a classmate of yours gets a speeding
ticket while driving to school. Explain why this
might have happened.
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ACTOR-OBSERVER EFFECT
People tend to make an attribution about
behavior depending on whether they are
performing the it themselves or observing
somebody else do it.
Behavior of self: Situational Factors
Behavior of others: Dispositional Factors
Do we agree with this idea?
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ERRORS IN ATTRIBUTION
We make mistakes with our attributions all the
time!
How can this impact our lives?
SC.2.B. Discuss two errors in attributions (the
studies for this standard also can be used for
SC.2.A.)
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ERROR OF ATTRIBUTION #1:
FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION
ERRORWhen people overestimate the role of
dispositional factors in an individual’s
behaviors and underestimate situational
factors.
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OUR GAME SHOW
Who did you score as being more intelligent?
Why did you do this?
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ROSS ET AL. (1977)
Aim: To determine if an assigned social role would
affect the judgment of that person
Method:
Created an experiment where participants were either assigned the
role of host, contestant, or audience member.
Host created questions based on their own knowledge.
If the answer was not correct, the host provided the answer.
After the game audience members ranked the intelligence of the host
versus the contestants.
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ROSS ET AL. (1977)
FINDINGS/CONCLUSIONS
Findings: The host was consistently ranked as
having higher intelligence by the audience.
Conclusion: The audience were looking for
dispositional factors of the participants and not
the situational factors…Fundamental
Attribution Error!
Critical Thinking: Ecological validity?
Representative sample? Role of authority
figure? Applications?
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SUEDFELD (2003)
Aim: To determine how Holocaust survivors use attribution to explain their survival.
Method: Gave a survey to Holocaust survivors asking them to explain the reasons that they survived. Compared this with a control group.
Findings:
Conclusion: Holocaust survivors had a more accurate picture of what happened and the reason why they survived. FAE in play for Control group.
Survivors Control
Dispositional 34% 71%
Situational 91% 51%
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EVALUATION OF FAE
Strengths of FAE Limitations of FAE
• Promotes understanding
of a common error that
people make.
• Supported by many
research studies
• May be culturally biased
towards individualism
• Research is generally
done in labs using
college students.
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ERROR OF ATTRIBUTION #2:
SELF-SERVING BIAS
When people take credit for their success,
attributing them to dispositional factors, and
disassociate themselves from their failures,
attributing them to situational factors.
Did this happen in your warm-up question?
Self-Handicapping-Individuals who expect to fail
openly make situational attributions before
attempting the task.
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LAU AND RUSSEL (1980)
Aim: To determine if college football coaches displayed SSB.
Method: Examined sports pages in current print and archives to study whether football coaches would display a self-serving bias.
Findings/Conclusions: Football coaches attribute victories to dispositional factors- hard work and the talent of the team- and explain failures to situational factors – weather, refs, injuries.
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SELF-SERVING BIAS
Do you agree with this theory?
Why would we do this? What would it
accomplish for us?
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KASHIMA AND TRIANDIS (1986)
Aim: To Determine if SSB is a culturally universal trait
Method: Asked students from different cultures (America and Japan) to try to remember information from slides of unfamiliar countries.
Findings: American Students: Success attributed to ability.
Japanese Students: Failure Attributed to ability.
Conclusion: Culture led students to engage in different types of attribution.
This is called the Modesty Bias
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EVALUATION OF SSD
Strengths of SSB Limitations of SSB
Explains why some people
(mostly from individualistic
cultures) explain their
failures as being caused by
situational factors
The theory is culturally
biased. It does not explain
modesty bias.
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ERRORS IN ATTRIBUTION SKITS
In pairs, you will create a short skit that represents one of the
three errors in attribution.
Create a naturalistic situation where errors in attribution could occur
Clearly demonstrate your error in action
Class will attempt to guess which error of attribution you are showing.