Discuss internal versus external causes in attribution. How do we decide to make an internal or an external attribution? Discuss two errors we might make in attribution
What will be an ideal response?
* If we decide the cause of an event or behavior is internal, we attribute it to the individual; and if we decide it has an external cause, we attribute it to the environment.
* Consistency and consensus influence our decisions concerning internal and external causes.
* The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to attribute behavior to internal causes.
* The actor-perceiver bias is the tendency for perceivers to make internal attributions and actors to make external attributions.
* The self-serving bias is the tendency to make internal attributions when we are successful and external attributions when we fail.
* The just-world belief is the belief that bad things happen to bad people and good things happen to good people.
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