Attribution theory

Three of the five major perspectives in Psychology are biological, cognitive and humanistic. The biological approach states that all behaviours, thoughts and feelings are caused by biological factors such as hormone production and genetics (McLeod 2007). For example the production of the hormone serotonin causes an individual to feel happiness, while genetics have evolved over the years so that human bodies and behaviour adapt to their environment, meaning that most behaviour we display today has

and events that they encounter. This concept falls under the ‘attribution theory’ umbrella, which means; assigning cause to our own or other peoples

Introduction The word ‘meme’ derived from a Greek word miméma which means “imitated”. Memes are very popular amongst Millennial and are used on daily basis. Memes helps to express our feelings on certain matters or situations that can be relatable with our daily life’s events. Meme is one of the most important units of todays cultural that symbolically transmit the idea from one person to another with the help of writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a

Perception is the organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment. Like perception, logic plays a role in critical thinking. Critical thinking is the process in which one mentally explores deeper than the superficial matters at hand into the deeper layers in order to find out what the real issues are. However, when it comes to weighing their beneficial impact on the critical thinking process, logic and perception are by no

tribes and even muslims in particular bow to greet when they see an elderly or person of authority. Perception also helps to find causes to an employee’s task performance. If an employee performs poorly, through the concepts of perception and attribution, the

How social schemas theory and related research contributes to our understanding of the way in which people evaluate and react in their social environment Cognitive representations of social situations are referred to as 'schemas'. These are mental structures, active in our brain, providing us with a knowledge store which determines how we view our social surroundings. These schemas are built from organised pre-registered data which determine our reactions to, and perceptions of, everyday life

Zou et al draw upon previous research demonstrating how perceived consensus occurs within groups. Groups can be particularly useful when we are unsure of the situation through two functions: comparative and normative. The comparative function serves as a benchmark; individuals will look towards others to see how they compare in terms of behavior and values. The normative function acts as a standard of behavior; when we are uncertain, we will look towards others to determine what is the normal and

others are susceptible to social influence, but that we are immune to this same pressure (Lilienfeld et al, 2014, pg 496). This idea has been proven false time and time again, and we see the contrary results when we look at social attribution error. Social attribution theory is when we tend to overlook the impact of environmental influences on a person and instead blame their behavior on their personality, beliefs and intelligence (Lilienfeld et al, 2014, pg 501). For example, consider a person waiting

In essence, attribution in psychology circles is the process of explaining the causes of particular behavior, as well as the events that unfolded and need explaining. In this case, the case can be related to internal attribution, since actions and motives for actions are questioned and this paper seeks to give reasons by analyzing the state of the men, who have traditional beliefs especially on gender roles.  The men who raped the woman hail from an emigrant group, which has traditional roles and

incongruent with a particular behaviour, had any influence on their ability to make valid attributions. The study aimed to capture which attributions changed from internal to external and vice versa, and which of the paired scenarios showed the biggest change. The method required participants to rate the behaviour and to provide an explanation about their rating. Results indicated a unanimous attribution change in one of the paired scenarios, but slight variance and uncertainty in the other scenarios