The Tendency to Overestimate the Importance of Dispositional Factors and Underestimate

question 218

Multiple Choice

The tendency to overestimate the importance of dispositional factors and underestimate the importance of situational ones is known as:

• A) stereotyping
• B) fundamental attribution error
• C) schema-driven processing
• D) prejudice

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Definitions:

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