The Tendency to Give Too Much Emphasis to Personal Factors

question 4

Multiple Choice

The tendency to give too much emphasis to personal factors when accounting for other people's actions is called _______.

• A)the primacy effect
• B)defensive attribution
• C)fundamental attribution error
• D)the just world hypothesis

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Definitions:

Ethical Decisions

Choices made based on ethical principles that seek to do good and avoid harm in any given situation.

Factors Influencing

Variables or conditions that can affect the outcome of a process, decision, or behavior, often studied to predict or understand results.

Managerial Behaviour

The patterns of actions and attitudes exhibited by managers, impacting organizational performance and employee morale.

Kohlberg's Preconventional

The first level in Kohlberg's theory of moral development, where an individual's moral reasoning is based primarily on the consequences of a behavior and its direct effects on oneself.