... the actor, to concluding the disposition which caused the intention. There is also Kelley's (1967) ANOVA model, which is concerned with what information we use to arrive at a causal attribution. In this essay, I shall attempt to further discuss and evaluate Kelley's model, as it is one of the most recent and widely discussed. Inevitably, all of these theories have been further formalized and extended by later psychologists. The key question for Kelley (1967) was 'what type of information does the person use in order to make a causal attribution?' (Scott and Spencer, 1998). He saw the person as a 'naïve scientist' who weighs up several pieces of information before arriving at an explanation for events causes. Kelly believes that in order to determine the origins of a behaviour, for example 'Nicola argued with her dad', we need three types of information; distinctiveness, consensus and consistency. Distinctiveness refers to ...

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