According to Gilbert's Two-Step Model of Social Perception,distraction Should Make

question 16

Multiple Choice

According to Gilbert's two-step model of social perception,distraction should make the fundamental attribution error more likely to happen because it

• A)discourages personal attributions,but has little effect on situational attributions.
• B)inhibits perceivers from using distinctiveness information,but allows them to take consistency information into account.
• C)does not interfere with the automatic process of making personal attributions,but does interfere with the more difficult process of making adjustments for situational factors.
• D)changes the interrelationship between the figure and the background in social perception.

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