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Essay Instructions: Critically discussed the issues presented in the readings.

Antaki, C. (1982) A brief introduction to attribution and attributional theories. In C. Antaki & C. Brewin (eds) Attributions and psychological change: application of attributional theories to clinical and educational practice. (pp. 3-21). London: Academic Press.

Solomon, S. (1978). Measuring dispositional and situational attributions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 589-593.

Weiner, B. (1980). Human motivation. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Read only pp. 341-352.

Nesdale, A.R. (1983). Effects of person and situation expectations on explanation seeking and causal attributions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 22, 93-99.

Weiner, B. (1985). "Spontaneous" causal Thinking. Psychological Bulletin, 97, 74-84.

Bohner, G., Bless, H., Schwarz, N. & Strack, F. (1988). What triggers causal attributions? The impact of valence and subjective probability. European Journal of Social Psychology, 18, 335-345.

Cutrona, C.E., Russell, D. and Jones, R.D. (1984). Cross-situational consistency in causal attributions: Does attributional style exist? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 1043-1058.

Burns, M.O. and Seligman, M.E.P. (1989). Explanatory style across the life span: evidence for stability over 52 years. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 471-477.

Bains, G. (1983). Explanations and the need for control. In M. Hewstone (ed) Attribution theory: social and functional extensions. (pp. 126-143). Oxford: Blackwell.

Brown, J.D. & Siegel, J.M. (1988) Attributions for negative life events and depression: he role of perceived control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 316-322.

Anderson, C.A. & Deuser, W.E. (1993). The primacy of control in causal thinking and attributional style: an attributional functionalism perspective. In G. Weary, F. Gleicher & K.J. Marsh, Control motivation and social cognition. (pp. 94-121). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Buss, A.R. (1978). Causes and reasons in attribution theory: a conceptual critique. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 1311-1321.

Essay Instructions: I need to request writer "Cathii" to complete my order due to the fact that it should tie in to my last order (ID: 107941) she completed that was an article review.
The final paper is for the same course (Social Psychology) and will be an empirical research proposal on any topic covered in this course (tying in to previous order/article review written by "Cathii" about Attribution Theory). The final paper will have two major parts: (a) literature review relevant to your chosen topic, which identifies an unresolved or yet to be examined issue and (b) an outline of an empirical investigation of this issue, complete with methodology and proposed statistical analyses. Your experiences in your statistics and research methods courses will be invaluable for this assignment.

Essay Instructions: a brief description of the attribution theory you selected. Then describe how the theory you selected explains the behavior of the person in the media. Finally, describe one limitation of the theory in explaining the behavior of the person you selected and explain why it is a limitation. Use the current literature to support your response.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources

For this Discussion, review this week?s media program, Week 3: The Virtual Office, and select an attribution theory. Consider how the theory explains the behavior of the person in the media program. page 2

a brief explanation of two of the four heuristics (representativeness, availability, false consensus effect, and anchoring heuristic). Then describe one example from work, home, or a social setting of when you found heuristic use to be helpful and one example of when it was not helpful, and explain why. Finally, explain how you might avoid nonhelpful heuristic use, and apply it to the example you previously provided.

Essay Instructions: Assessment details

Write a journalistic blog-style summary of the following:
1) What is Attribution theory? (450 words)
2) How do we exercise our emotional intelligence?(450 words)
3 )Culture is constantly evolving (500 words)

Assessment Criteria

1) An appropriate yet creative journalistic blog style which links experiences to content.
2) Clear communication, including the use of correct grammar, spelling and punctuation
3) Adherence to Harvard presentation and referencing.
4)Reflects a growing understanding of fundamental theories and draws together in-depth discussion of the key concepts beyond the prescribed texts.
5) linkage between feedback and key concepts. Discussion is informed by the reflection on; and
the integration of; ideas raised in weekly activities.
6)use of higher level thinking (analysis, synthesis, evaluation). Illustrates a thoughtful and creative approach to the ideas being discussed. Personal or job-related experiences are discussed and integrated within the context of key concepts. Word limit was adhered to.
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