When People in Western Nations Are Trying to Find Reasons

question 133

Multiple Choice

When people in Western nations are trying to find reasons for someone else's behaviour, they tend to:

• A) explore the personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation.
• B) ignore dispositional attributions in favour of situational attributions.
• C) overestimate personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation.
• D) leap to the attribution that people's behaviours correspond to the context.

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Definitions:

Independent Variable

A variable that is manipulated or changed in an experiment to see if it has an effect on the dependent variable.

Correlation Coefficient

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two or more variables fluctuate together, ranging from -1 to 1, where 1 means a perfect positive relationship, -1 means a perfect negative relationship, and 0 means no relationship.

Variables

Elements or factors that can change and affect the outcomes of scientific research or experiments.

Correlation Coefficient

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two variables fluctuate together, showing the strength and direction of their relationship.