Question

Describe the role of situational and dispositional factors in explaining behaviour

Answer 1

Answer:

In the psychological world, there are many different methods and approaches to the understanding and explaining of why or how people behave in certain situations.

We explain people"s behaviour in terms of factors which are specific to them as a person, such as their personality or other internal and generally unchanging characteristics, traits, feelings, moods and abilities. Can be positive or negative

The situation was that several people in the village were killed when a granary doorway collapsed.

This resulted in the villagers to have attributions on why the door collapsed and killed so many people.

Their attributions for this circumstance was that:

The Azande attributed their deaths, or the fact that they were standing next to the walls when it collapsed was to witchcraft.

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