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Welcome!. Taking Responsibility: It’s Up to You!!. Slideshow Courtesy of: Danielle Woods FIPSE Coordinator at The Ohio State University. Module 5. Taking Responsibility: It’s Up to You!!. What Are Causal Explanations?. The reasons we give ourselves for our outcomes.
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Welcome! Taking Responsibility: It’s Up to You!! Slideshow Courtesy of: Danielle Woods FIPSE Coordinator at The Ohio State University
Module 5 Taking Responsibility: It’s Up to You!!
What Are Causal Explanations? • The reasons we give ourselves for our outcomes. • They affect how we perceive a past situation and how we anticipate a future situation.
Internal Causes: Ability and Effort • Ability (or natural ability) is not necessarily something we should be so proud of. • We don’t control it. • Effort, on the other hand, is easy is what we should focus on because it is our responsibility.
External Causes: Tasks Difficulty, Luck, Help • When we regard external causes to be the basis for our poor results, we avoid assuming the responsibility for them. • We also relinquish control over our results when we decide their cause is external.
Blaming External Causes Is To Avoid Responsibility • If we constantly blame external causes for our bad events, we go round and round on the Victim Wheel. (LMS, fig. 5.3, p.81)
Optimists • Regard the causes for their unfavorable outcomes to be unstable, specific and controllable! • Hence they see them as temporary.
Pessimists • Expect unfavorable outcomes to continue because they regard their causes to be permanent, generalizable from one task to another, and something they cannot control.
Self-Serving Bias • We tend to take credit for success and avoid responsibility for failure. • While this may make us feel better, it undermines the work necessary to avoid failures in the future.
The Importance of Effort • Effort is the only causal explanation that is unstable,specific, & controllable.
Using Effort to Overcome Some Other Internal Explanations • We often avoid responsibility by treating personal characteristics as stable and uncontrollable, when really they are controllable and our responsibility. • Laziness • Moodiness • Aggressiveness • Inability to concentrate • Test anxiety
The Application of Effort: Strategy! • Strategy is the application of effort that helps you to avoid guilt, and is good if (and only if) it is considered a controllable explanation.
Expecting Success • The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy • What we expect form ourselves (and other) is usually what happens.
Controlling What You Can Control! • What we expect, we self-fulfill. • So if you expect success, it is more likely to happen! • The ONLY things that we can control are our current and future thoughts and behaviors. • Get out of the past!!!
….And Dumping What You Can’t Control • It is important to differentiate “influence” and “control” • We can control OUR BEHAVIORS in an attempt to INFLUENCE our friends’ and /or loved-ones’ BEHAVIORS – but that’s all we can do – we cannot control anybody else's behavior!
You cannot control what you’ve done in the past, only what you are dong and thinking now and WILL do and think in the future!
References:Danielle E. Woods Coordinator, Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) Grant The Ohio State University250F Walter E. Dennis Learning Center 1640 Neil AvenueColumbus, OH 43201-2333Phone: 614-688-3913Fax: 614-688-3912Department Email: wedlc@osu.eduPersonal Email: woods.378@osu.edu URL: http://dennislearningcenter.osu.eduAll pictures used in this slide show were retrieved from Google.www.google.com
