Daniel Gilbert and Patrick Malone (1995)have Pointed Out That We

question 137

Multiple Choice

Daniel Gilbert and Patrick Malone (1995) have pointed out that we often fall prey to the fundamental attribution error because

• A) we seldom, if ever, know how actors interpret information about the situation.
• B) although there are taxonomies of people, there are no taxonomies of situations.
• C) understanding current behaviour is of no help in predicting future behaviour.
• D) we tend to overestimate situational constraints.
• E) we seldom, if ever, have consensus information.

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Definitions:

MLU

Mean Length of Utterance, a measure used in linguistics to calculate and analyze the complexity of children's language development by averaging the length of their spoken statements.

Chronological Age

The exact age of an individual as measured in years from the date of birth.

Morpheme

The smallest grammatical unit in a language that carries semantic meaning.

Holophrase

A single word used by an infant that expresses a complex idea or request, indicative of early language development.