Explaining Someone's Behavior in Terms of Internal Causes, Such as Attitudes

question 150

Multiple Choice

Explaining someone's behavior in terms of internal causes, such as attitudes or beliefs, is called ______.

• A) the fundamental attribution error
• B) dispositional attribution
• C) situational attribution
• D) psychogenic attribution

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Definitions:

Nutrition

The process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.

Materialism

A philosophical belief that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes can be explained as manifestations or results of matter.

Neuroscience

is the scientific study of the nervous system, encompassing its structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology.

Plasticity

The capacity of the brain to change and adapt in response to experience, learning, or injury.