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   On Sun, 11 May 2008 22:12:16 -0700, Immortalist wrote:   
      
   > The two main types of   
   > attributions are internal and external attributions.   
      
   Better expressed:   
      
   Attributions are (falsely) classified into two main types.   
   The classification process demands a false division for the purpose of   
   study.   
      
   The 'internal' and 'external' are not as separate as this needed   
   cognitive process tells us. For instance, the quality of the environment,   
   let's say 'water', directly effects all internal processes. Internal   
   disposition, which can be the product of anything from upbringing to   
   developmental stage, can effect all perception of the environment.   
      
   Despite this there is a need to sort things out if a person, or as it   
   turns out a society, becomes ill and destructive to itself and/or others.   
   So these classification schemes hopefully will help. They may not however   
   in that it stamps blind spots onto the observer or clinician.   
      
   A good example of this is ADD or ADHD or whatever the fave designation is   
   these days. It is now known without question that diet and extra-   
   curricula activities (eg Sugar and TV) trigger hyper behavior. So a   
   school psychologist, one eye on a normative behavioral chart another on   
   the dervish kid, will see behavior as a purely 'internal' attribute. The   
   fact that this kid had two bowels of Count Chocula and watched 1/2 an   
   episode of Power Rangers before school is off their scope maybe even of   
   no interest before the parents are called. Maybe this has changed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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