The Black Death and Ensuing Social Unrest Resulted in Noble

question 66

Multiple Choice

The Black Death and ensuing social unrest resulted in noble families:

• A)becoming impoverished.
• B)turning to commerce in a bid to make more money.
• C)selling off much of their land to small farmers.
• D)building large and very strong castles to protect themselves.
• E)growing wealthier than they had been.

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Definitions:

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to underestimate the importance of situational influences and to overestimate personal, dispositional factors as causes of behavior.

Motivational Bias

A cognitive bias that affects the direction of people's behavior by their underlying motives, desires, or needs.

Focus-of-Attention Bias

The tendency to prioritize and remember information that is the focus of one's attention, often at the expense of other information.

Actor-Observer Difference

The bias in attribution whereby actors tend to see their own behavior as due to characteristics of the external situation, whereas observers tend to attribute actors’ behavior to the actors’ internal, personal characteristics.