When We Underestimate the Role of Context in Explaining Someone

question 6

Multiple Choice

When we underestimate the role of context in explaining someone else's behaviour we:

• A) make the ultimate attribution error.
• B) show the actor-observer effect.
• C) demonstrate the illusory correlation.
• D) make the fundamental attribution error.

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Definitions:

Historical Sociological Approaches

Methods in sociology that emphasize the importance of historical context and processes in understanding social phenomena.

Law

A system of rules created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.

Socially Constructed

A concept or perception that has been created and accepted by the people in a society through cultural and social practice.

Relative

Considered in relation or in proportion to something else; not absolute.