New Technologies Can Be Introduced as a Way to Support

question 10

True/False

New technologies can be introduced as a way to support desired behavioral changes.

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Definitions:

Belief Perseverance

A tendency to continue to view an initial assumption as correct despite evidence to the contradictory.

Self-serving Bias

In attribution, the tendency for people to take personal credit for acts that yield positive outcomes and to deflect blame for bad outcomes by attributing them to external causes.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overemphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while underestimating the influence of situational factors.

Actor-observer Difference

The tendency to attribute one's own actions to situational factors while attributing others' actions to their personal characteristics.