If a Researcher Were Conducting a Study of Women's Attitudes

question 7

Multiple Choice

If a researcher were conducting a study of women's attitudes toward abortion, the unit of analysis would be:

• A)the individual.
• B)attitudes.
• C)each abortion.
• D)the community.
• E)the society.

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Definitions:

Opinions

Personal beliefs or judgments that are not necessarily based on fact or knowledge, reflecting individual perspectives.

Self-Serving Bias

A common human tendency to attribute positive events to one's own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

Internal Attributions

The process of ascribing the cause of one's own or others' behavior to personal traits, dispositions, or abilities, rather than to external factors.

External Attributions

The process of inferring that a person's behavior is due to situational factors, rather than aspects of the individual themselves.