The Tendency to Attribute Behavior to Internal Qualities of an Actor

question 117

Multiple Choice

The tendency to attribute behavior to internal qualities of an actor and underestimate situational factors is referred to as _____.

• A) causal attribution
• B) the fundamental attribution error
• C) the availability heuristic
• D) the representativeness heuristic

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Definitions:

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Pseudocoma

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