When People Commit the Fundamental Attribution Error,they Tend to

question 110

Multiple Choice

When people commit the fundamental attribution error,they tend to

• A) overestimate the situational constraints on people's behaviour.
• B) underestimate the direct causes of people's behaviour.
• C) underestimate the situational constraints on people's behaviour.
• D) rely on situational information only and disregard personality variables.
• E) overestimate the proximal causes of people's behaviour.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response which is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response without the need for prior learning.

Synaptic Pruning

A natural process of brain development in which extra neurons and synaptic connections are eliminated to increase the efficiency of neuronal transmissions.