One Reason That People Make the Fundamental Attribution Error Is

question 24

Multiple Choice

One reason that people make the fundamental attribution error is that they

• A) use the anchoring/adjustment heuristic, whereas observers use the availability heuristic.
• B) do not have access to any situational information.
• C) are more biased than objective observers.
• D) have more distinctiveness and consistency information than observers.
• E) have more consensus information than observers.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus, starts to trigger a conditioned response similar to the response to the unconditioned stimulus.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without the need for prior learning.

Wagner

A reference to theories postulated by Robert A. Rescorla and Allan R. Wagner on conditioning processes, focusing on the associative strength between stimuli and responses.

Unconditioned Response

An automatic, natural response to an unconditioned stimulus that requires no learning.