Our Tendency to Overemphasize Internal Explanations of Other People's Behavior

question 79

Multiple Choice

Our tendency to overemphasize internal explanations of other people's behavior is known as

• A) paradoxical intervention.
• B) the representativeness heuristic.
• C) the fundamental attribution error.
• D) proactive interference.

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