Joe, a Production Worker in a Doll Manufacturing Plant, Recently

question 48

Multiple Choice

Joe, a production worker in a doll manufacturing plant, recently changed positions on the manufacturing line from painting the eyes, to attaching arms to each doll.In the past, his work was always impeccable with a very low rate of mistakes, but since the switch, the quality team has found numerous dolls with arms that were haphazardly attached.A majority of the flawed-arm dolls are from Joe's assembly line.When his supervisor approached him about his quality issues, Joe replied that lately he has been having a string of bad luck.In the past, when praised for his excellent quality doll eyes, Joe always took the credit and boasted about his abilities.This is known as:

• A)the fundamental attribution error.
• B)a correspondence bias.
• C)a self-serving bias.
• D)a self-fulfilling prophecy.
• E)the halo effect.

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Definitions:

Experimenter's Manipulations

The deliberate alteration of variables by a researcher in an experiment to determine their effects on the outcome.

Standard Deviation

A commonly used measure of variability that indicates the average difference between scores in a distribution and their mean.

Arithmetic Mean

An average that is calculated by adding up a set of quantities and dividing the sum by the total number of quantities in the set.

Experimenter Effects

Influences that the experimenter's presence, behavior, or characteristics may have on the outcome of an experiment.