Causal attribution is involved in many important situations in our lives. For example, when we attempt to determine why we or others have succeeded or failed at a task, think back for a moment to a test that you took or another task that you performed and consider why you did either well or poorly on it, then see if your tools reflect with Bernard Wiener considers to be the important factors in this regard. Weiner was interested in how we determine the causes of success or failure, because he felt that this information was particularly important for us accurately determining why we have succeeded or failed will help us see which tasks we are good at already, and which we need to work on in order to improve. One are propose that we make these determinations by engaging in causal attribution and that the outcomes of our decision making process were evolutions made either to the person so we have two ways I succeeded failed.

Because of my own personal characteristics or to the situation where we say I succeeded failed because of something about a situation, wyness analysis is shown here in this figure as you can see, and according to whiner successful failure can be seen as coming from personal causes, which is ability or motivation or situational causes, such as lack or task difficulty. However, he also argued that those personal and situational causes could be either stable, less likely to change over time or unstable more likely to change over time. This figure shows the potential attributions that we can make for our or for other people success or failure. lacus considers whether the attributions are to the person or to the situation and the ability to consider whether or not the situation is likely to remain the same over time. If you did well on a test because you are really smart that this is a personal and stable attribution of ability is clearly Something that is caused by your personality, and it is also quite unstable, cause you're smart TV and you will probably be smart in the future.

However, if you succeeded more because you study hard, then this is a success due to motivation. It is again personal you started, but it is also potentially unstable. Although you study really hard for this test, you might not work so hard for the next one. What do you consider to task difficulty to be a situational cause? You may have succeeded on the test because it was easy, and he assumed that the next test would probably be easy for you to, for example, what the task, whatever it is, is always either hard or easy. And finally, why not consider success due to luck?

You just guessed a lot of the answers correctly to be a situational cause, but one that was more unstable than past with difficulty. It turns out that all the whiners attributions do not always fit perfectly. For example, if that's difficult something's changed over time and does be at least somewhat unstable. The four types of information have pretty well capture these types of attributions that people make for success into failure.