What Does the Actor-Observer Effect Refer To

question 84

Multiple Choice

What does the actor-observer effect refer to?

• A) the tendency to explain other people's actions in dispositional terms while viewing personal behaviour as situationally determined
• B) the tendency to rely on personally vivid examples of behaviour to judge the likelihood of future behaviour
• C) the tendency to make assumptions about the unknown personality characteristics of actors on the basis of known characteristics
• D) the tendency to assume that the behaviour of others will be similar to one's own behaviour

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