Which of the Following Has Been Offered as an Explanation

question 126

Multiple Choice

Which of the following has been offered as an explanation for the fundamental attribution error?

• A) We do not know how people behaved other situations the past
• B) We too often give other people the benefit of the doubt.
• C) We are easily distracted by the situation which events occur.
• D) We suffer from low self-esteem and a tendency to self-criticize.

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Definitions:

Critical Values

Critical values are specific points on the scale of a statistical distribution that are used to determine the threshold at which the null hypothesis of a test can be rejected.

Positive Autocorrelation

Occurs when a variable's current value is positively related to its past values in a time series.

Durbin-Watson Statistic

A statistical measure employed to identify if there is autocorrelation at the first lag within the residual values following a regression analysis.

Positive Autocorrelation

A situation in which the errors in a regression model are positively correlated, meaning that a positive error in one period is likely to be followed by a positive error in the next.