The Tendency to Give Too Much Emphasis to Personal Factors

question 122

Multiple Choice

The tendency to give too much emphasis to personal factors when accounting for other people's actions is called ________.

• A) the Peter principle
• B) the fundamental attribution error
• C) the primacy effect
• D) defensive attribution

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Definitions:

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