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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