Megan's Baby Is Crying and She Is Trying to Understand

question 11

Multiple Choice

Megan's baby is crying and she is trying to understand why.Megan would be making the fundamental attribution error if she were to conclude that her baby

• A) has a cranky temperament.
• B) has a cranky temperament while disregarding the fact that the baby has a soiled diaper.
• C) has a cranky temperament while disregarding the fact that that the baby may have inherited that cranky temperament from her.
• D) has an easygoing temperament.
• E) has an easygoing temperament but that the baby is temporarily uncomfortable because of a soiled diaper.

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Definitions:

Dizygotic Twins

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Childhood Cancer

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Discordant

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Autosomal Dominant

A pattern of inheritance where a mutation in just one of the two copies of a gene is sufficient to cause a genetic disorder.