Question

Take a moment to think about how you generally attribute the behavior of others. Describe one instance when you attributed someone else’s behavior to his or her disposition (a personal/dispositional attribution) and describe one instance when you attributed someone else’s behavior to the situation (a situational attribution). Why do you think your attribution differed in these two instances?

Answer 1

Answer:

In psychology attribution is the daily process that it is carried out in order to delegate the reason for an event or behavior. This reasons can be due to the abilities or aptitudes of someone, or due to the situation or circumstance itself.

Explanation:

In psychology attribution is the daily process that it is carried out in order to delegate the reason for an event or behavior. This reasons can be due to the abilities or aptitudes of someone, or due to the situation or circumstance itself.

In the first case an example of a daily personal or dispositional attribution could be when your brother splits the juice in the mother´s new carpet in the dining room. Mother gets really angry because she attributes the fact to the awkwardness  of your brother making immediately a dispositional attribution, however it is possible to analyze that she is not considering other facts, it could have been that the new carpet was not even and that could have been the real reason.

In the second case, one common example can be seen when someone arrives late to work and that person attributes the reason to the weather, that is to say to the situation of the moment.