In the Late 1980s,the Spread of AIDS in the United

question 6

Multiple Choice

In the late 1980s,the spread of AIDS in the United States

• A) remained largely confined to gay communities in large cities.
• B) occurred most rapidly among heterosexuals.
• C) began to level off and then decline.
• D) was concentrated in the Northeast.
• E) was transmitted almost exclusively through sexual contact.

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Definitions:

Correspondent Inference

The tendency to draw conclusions about a person's dispositional characteristics from their behavior.

Causal Relationship

A connection between two variables where a change in one directly affects the change in the other.

Actor-Observer Effect

A psychological phenomenon in which people tend to attribute their own actions to situational factors while attributing other people's actions to their internal characteristics.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to explain someone's behavior based on internal factors, such as personality or disposition, while underestimating external factors.