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EPPP Psychology

Category - Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior

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Social psychology studies the way individual behavior and social contexts influence each other. Attribution theory focuses on the explanations individuals generate to explain specific events or outcomes. Fritz Heider, one of the early developers of this theory, proposed that people make two types of attributions. What does he call those attributions?
  1. Dispositional and distinctive
  2. Dispositional and situational
  3. Situational and distinctive
  4. Consensus-based and consistency-based
Explanation
Answer: B - Heider defined the two types of attributions people make as dispositional, which locate the cause of behavior within the self, and situational, which locate the cause of behavior outside the self.
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