One Explanation for Why People Commit the Fundamental Attribution Error

question 69

Multiple Choice

One explanation for why people commit the fundamental attribution error is _____.

• A)the self-serving bias
• B)the saliency bias
• C)the obviousness bias
• D)prejudice

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Definitions:

Intervention

Actions or strategies implemented to produce a change in a situation or in the behavior of individuals, often within educational or therapeutic contexts.

Changing Criterion Design

A method of graphing behavioral observations used to evaluate a slow and orderly increase or decrease in a student’s performance level by changing the criterion for the student to receive an intervention in a stepwise fashion.

Target Criterion

A specific goal or standard of performance that individuals aim to achieve in an intervention, training program, or behavioral experiment.

Baseline

The initial set of measurements or observations that serve as a starting point for comparison over time.