When Making an Internal or External Attribution About a Person's

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True/False

When making an internal or external attribution about a person's behavior, we tend to look at whether the person has acted this way in the past and other situations and whether other people act similarly in this situation.

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Definitions:

Indirect Fitness

The genetic gain achieved by an organism by helping relatives rear their offspring, thereby passing on shared genes.

Alarm-Calling

Vocalizations made by certain animals to alert members of their group to potential danger.

Inclusive Fitness

A concept in evolutionary biology describing an organism's genetic success as both its own reproductive output and its influence on the reproductive output of its genetic relatives.

Alarm-Calling

Vocal signals emitted by some animals to warn conspecifics of potential predators, enhancing group survival but potentially increasing risk to the caller.