The ________ Occurs When We Attribute Personal Successes to Internal

question 9

Multiple Choice

The ________ occurs when we attribute personal successes to internal causes and personal failures to external causes.

• A)anchoring and adjustment bias
• B)fundamental attribution error
• C)self-serving bias
• D)escalation of commitment error
• E)availability bias

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Definitions:

Convergent Evolution

A process where organisms not closely related independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches.

Homology

The existence of shared ancestry between a pair of structures, or genes, in different species.

Reversal

The act of changing direction, position, or an earlier decision, often used in various contexts including behavior, decision-making, and physical movements.

Linnaean Categories

Hierarchical levels of classification in biology developed by Carl Linnaeus, including kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.