Weighting More Heavily the Information We First Learn About Someone

question 106

Multiple Choice

Weighting more heavily the information we first learn about someone as compared to the information we learn later is known as the _____.

• A) actor-observer bias
• B) self-serving bias
• C) fundamental attribution error
• D) primacy effect

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Definitions:

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Caffeine

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