What Is the Main Reason We Tend to Make Attributions

question 49

Multiple Choice

What is the main reason we tend to make attributions about the causes of events, others' behaviour, and our own behaviour?

• A)We have a strong need to understand our experiences.
• B)Attribution making was selected for at some point in our ancestral past.
• C)We have an unconscious urge to psychoanalyze the behaviour of others.
• D)Having access to information about others tends to fulfill our need for power.

Acknowledge the influence of cost assignments on management's pricing and product decisions.

Recognize the importance of accurately allocating overhead costs and the impact of different allocation methods on product cost accuracy.

Understand the steps involved in activity-based costing and its purpose in overhead cost allocation.

Recognize how direct labor hours and machine hours are used as allocation bases in different overhead costing methods.

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