| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Kelley's Covariation Model | model looking at the impact of how behaviour varies over time by using consensus, consistency and distinctiveness |
| Consensus | do other people in this situation behave the same way? |
| Consistency | does this person react this way every time they are in this situation? |
| Distinctiveness | does this person act this way in similar situations or with other people? |
| Fundamental Attribution Error | the tendency to explain the causes of another's behaviour in terms of dispositional factors |
| Abrahamson (1978) | study looking at how clinically depressed people do not use the Self-Serving Bias like other people do |
| Seneviratne and Saunders (2000) | study looking at how alcoholics attribute their own and other people's relapses with alcohol |
| Pfeffer (1998) | study looking at the differences in the attribution made for youth crime by British and Nigerian children |
| Dispositional attribution | internal attribution based on who the person is |
| Situational attribution | external attribution based on the situation the person is in |
| Storms (1973) | study looking at how people are more likely to make an internal attribution when they see themselves on videotape |
| Lou and Russell (1980) | study looking at how American football players and coaches attribute wins to determination and skill and losses to bad luck or injuries |
| Davison and Neale (1994) | study looking at how women in general tend to use the Self-Serving Bias less |
| Abnormal Conditions Model | model stating that Kelley's Covariation Model is too complex and only one of the three conditions is needed to make an attribution |
| Self-Serving Bias | explanation for why people tend to attribute their successes to internal causes and failures to external causes |
| Actor-Observer Effect | explanation for why people make different attributions depending on whether they are the person doing the behaviour, or just observing it |
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