global attribution
- noun
- Specialized
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atribución global
- As predicted by the learned helplessness model, depressed students made more internal, stable, and global attributions for bad outcomes than did nondepressed students, suggesting that attributional style may contribute to depression proneness.
Examples
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In therapy, patients learned that shifting from global attribution can help them view setbacks as isolated incidents rather than a reflection of their overall self-worth.
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During the discussion, she noted that a tendency toward global attribution could lead individuals to generalize negative experiences across different areas of life.
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Researchers found that people often make global attribution when they believe their failures are tied to their overall abilities, rather than specific events.
Synonyms
Someone thinks a person's actions come from a lasting trait
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositionally derived from 'global' (across contexts or generally) + 'attribution' (ascribing a cause), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to ascribing a cause broadly across situations. This pattern is conceptually transparent and commonly expressed similarly in other languages, making it readily comprehensible to learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
Global attribution comes from the simple image of putting one label on many things: global means 'all' and attribution means 'giving a cause'. If someone blames one cause for many different events, for example saying 'I always fail' after one mistake, they are making a global attribution, so the term means seeing the same cause across situations.
