Recall That Even When Participants in an Experiment Conducted by Jones

question 178

Multiple Choice

Recall that even when participants in an experiment conducted by Jones and Harris (1967) were told that people were assigned to write an essay sympathetic to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, they still were willing to assume that the essay reflected the writer's true "pro-Castro" attitudes. These findings illustrate __________.

• A) the power of distinctiveness information
• B) the fundamental attribution error
• C) a self-serving attribution
• D) a consensus effect

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Definitions:

Dependent Variable

In an experiment, the variable that is being tested and measured, often to see if it is affected by changes in another variable (the independent variable).

Correlated

When two or more variables are related in some way, indicating that changes in one variable are associated with changes in another.

Experiment

A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.

Hypothesis

A proposed explanation for a phenomenon, made as a starting point for further investigation, often testable by experimentation.