The Actor-Observer Effect Describes the Tendency

question 14

Multiple Choice

The actor-observer effect describes the tendency:

• A)for actors to be more expressive than observers in any given situation.
• B)to be less susceptible to the misinformation effect if one is an actor,rather than an observer,in a situation.
• C)to make internal attributions for the behavior of others and external attributions for our own behavior.
• D)to make causal attributions about both actors and observers,depending on the role we are playing in a given context.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, describing how much individual data points differ from the mean.

Sample Mean

The average of a set of numerical values drawn from a sample of a population, used as an estimate of the population mean.

Margin Of Error

The amount of error that can be tolerated in the results of a poll or survey, indicating the potential deviation from the true population parameter.

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of numbers, extracted from sample observations, presumed to hold the value of a not yet identified population characteristic.