People Tend to Attribute Their Own Behaviors to Situational Factors

question 7

Multiple Choice

People tend to attribute their own behaviors to situational factors, but to attribute others' behaviors to dispositional factors. This pattern is known as the ____.

• A) fundamental attribution error
• B) heuristic effect
• C) self-serving bias
• D) actor-observer effect

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Definitions:

Language Development

How young children learn to comprehend and utilize language during the initial stages of childhood.

Semantics

The study of meaning in language, including the analysis of the meanings of words, phrases, and sentences.

Morphemes

The smallest grammatical units in a language that have semantic meaning, including roots, prefixes, and suffixes.