What is attributional tendencies? Something to do with behavior or emotions right? Yes, it is when a behavior is attributed to internal or personal factors, or the process of inferring the causes and behaviors. For example: Maria's car breaks down on the freeway. If she believes the breakdown happened because of her ignorance about cars, she is making an internal attribution. If she believes that the breakdown happened because her car is old, she is making an external attribution.
Attributional tendencies refer to what we attribute success, to what we attribute our personal failures, to what we attribute the successes of others, to what we attribute the failures of others. In our culture, in all cultures, we're always attributing things to other things.
The fundamental attribution error is our tendency to explain someone's behavior based on internal factors, such as personality or disposition, and to underestimate the influence that external factors, such as situational influences, have on another person's behavior.
What impact do attributions for behavior really have on your life? The attributions you make each and every day have an important influence on your feelings as well as how you think and relate to other people. We need to keep this in mind when we are dealing with students and their parents in and outside the classroom.
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