Ross and Sicoly (1979)asked Students Working on a Group Project

question 116

Multiple Choice

Ross and Sicoly (1979) asked students working on a group project to report their memories for both their own contributions and the contributions of other group members.They found that students remembered their own contributions very well,but had poorer recall of other group members' contributions.This study is an example of

• A) self-serving attributions.
• B) the actor/observer effect.
• C) hindsight bias.
• D) the fundamental attribution error.
• E) the representativeness heuristic.

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