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Look through these orientating sentences:

1 Attribution is all around us. We are always trying to work out why things happened. This essay will examine the omnipresent phenomenon of attribution.

2 Human beings are cognitive creatures for whom thinking is crucial. Our social world is a vital part of our lives. This essay will examine attribution, which is a very important part of being human.

3 Your friend blanks you – why? You are making an attribution and you probably do so all the time. This essay will provide the answer to these mysteries of human interaction.

4 Kelley’s covariation model of causal attribution outlined the way in which we decide whether a cause is internal or external. Kelley argued that we assess the consensus, consistency and distinctiveness of an event that we are trying to make an attribution about.

5 Kelley’s covariation model of causal attribution could be understood as representing a particularly important example of applying a rational framework to understand human cognitive functioning. This essay will first outline the rational, deductive principles which Kelley’s covariation model suggests that we use in calculating causality.