Question

2. Match the Attribution to the example: Dispositional, Situational

3. Sean calls his girlfriend clumsy when she drops things. By overemphasizing the personal disposition, Sean is making the: Dispositional

4. Individualistic cultures will tend to make explain a person’s behavior using a person’s .

5. Gary says people who take government support and benefits are lazy. However, recently he applied for social support. Gary says “that’s different, the economy now is really bad.” This illustrates what bias?  

6. When Nilo won the soccer game he claimed it was due to practice and game strategy. When Nilo lost he whined about the poor refereeing and the condition of the field. This illustrates the:

7. Often privileged people in power take the position of blaming the victim (ie, sexual violence, poverty), known as the:

8. The Stanford Prison Experiment, the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, and current migrant detention camps show how easily someone assigned as “guard” can do cruel things because of:

Answer 1

• ANSWER-Sean calls his girlfriend clumsy when she drops things. By overemphasizing the personal disposition, Sean is attributing is his girlfriend's behaviour to dispositional or personal factors.This is also called fundamental attribution error,which refers to the tendency to overestimate dispositional factors for others behaviour and underestimate the situational influences.Sean fails to give benefit of doubt to his girlfriend,that she might have dropped something,because she might have have tripped on something.
• ANSWER-Individualistic cultures will tend to make explain a person’s behavior using a person’s disposition.The focus is on the individual being self reliant and independent,therefore disposition is used to explain the person's behaviour.
• ANSWER-Gary says people who take government support and benefits are lazy. However, recently he applied for social support. Gary says “that’s different, the economy now is really bad.” This illustrates actor observer bias.This refers to the tendency when one's own actions are attributed to external causes while other people's behaviours are attributed to internal causes.
• So people are taking government support because they are lazy is dispositional,but in explaining his actions,Gary attributes it to situational factors,i.e. the economy is bad so he seeking social support.
• ANSWER-When Nilo won the soccer game he claimed it was due to practice and game strategy. When Nilo lost he whined about the poor refereeing and the condition of the field. This illustrates the self serving bias which refers to the tendency of attributing positive events to one's own character and dispositional factors and negative events to situational factors.
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