Even When Participants in an Experiment,conducted by E

question 27

Multiple Choice

Even when participants in an experiment,conducted by E.E.Jones and Victor Harris (1967) ,were told that people were assigned to write an essay sympathetic to Cuba's Fidel Castro,they still were willing to assume that the essay reflected the writer's true "pro-Castro" attitudes.These findings illustrate

• A) the covariation effect.
• B) the power of distinctiveness information.
• C) the fundamental attribution error.
• D) judgmental heuristics.
• E) the power of consistency information.

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