Attitude And Social Cognition — Psychology STD 12 Humanities — Question

Attribution: It is a systematic process of assigning causes to a person's behaviour. Fundamental attribution error: An overall tendency for to give greater wieghtage to internal factors than to external factors os called fundamental attribution error.
Example:

• The Indians tend to make more external (situational) attribution than Americans do.
• In general, people attribute success to internal factors, such as their ability or hard work.

They attribution failure to external factors such as bad luck, the difficulty of the task and so on.