When People Explain Their Own Behavior by Making a Situational

question 42

Multiple Choice

When people explain their own behavior by making a situational attribution and the behavior of others by making a dispositional attribution it is called

• A)stereotyping.
• B)the fundamental attribution error.
• C)self-serving bias.
• D)self-fulfilling prophecy.
• E)the actor-observer effect.

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Definitions:

Maximin Criterion

A decision-making rule used for minimizing the worst-case scenario loss.

Uncertainty

The state of having limited knowledge where it is impossible to exactly describe the existing state, a future outcome, or more than one possible outcome.

EMV

stands for Expected Monetary Value, a concept in risk management used to calculate the average outcome of future events and their financial impacts.