If a person always responds in the same way to a stimulus across all contexts, then what type of attribution will likely be made?

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Greene

12 May, 17:36

If a person always responds in the same way to a stimulus across all contexts, then what type of attribution will likely be made?

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Nicholas Patrick · Answer 1

That would be a dispositional attribution.

Here it is important to make a difference between two phenomenons that use this same term. The first is what the question is about as the dispositional attribution is a way person reacts to something based on the internal characteristics and the second is that we think that a personal characteristic is a cause for a certain event. The second one can lead to a fundamental attribution error if we are not careful.