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Attributions Week 2 DQ2

This discussion addresses the psychological theory of attribution and its impact on understanding human behavior.

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    Week 2 DQ2 Attributions Examine the role of attributions in our social world. What are attributions, and how do we use them in our daily lives? Discuss the differences between internal and external attributions and describe the fundamental attribution error. For example, what would be the explanatory style of a person who makes internal, stable, and global attributions for positive things and external, unstable, and specific attributions for negative things? Also consider the individual who does the opposite; what does this behavior tell us about the person? Attributions are our everyday social interactions we need to make judgments about why others act the way they do. In doing so we are making attributions. Attributions are our explanations of the behavior of us and others. (Feenstra, 2011) The differences in internal and external attributions are great in the sense that internal attributions are when we make assumptions toward the behavior or behaviors of another, for example if a person is walking into a store behind another person and the person in front closes the door on the one behind them. An internal response would be that this person is rude and probably a jerk, however an external response would be that the person might not have saw the person behind them or was in a hurry and didn’t think of it. When people attribute behavior to dispositional factors when there are clear situational factors at work, they are engaging in correspondence bias, also known as fundamental attribution error. (Feenstra, 2011)

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