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:

Analysis of Transference

A psychoanalytic process that examines the redirection of a patient's feelings for a significant person to the therapist, revealing unresolved conflicts.

Self-Denigrating Thoughts

Negative and critical inner dialogues that diminish one's self-esteem and contribute to feelings of unworthiness or failure.

Neutral Interpretations

The act of understanding or explaining information without any bias, emotional involvement, or negative or positive spin.