After a Particularly Rough Day at Work, During Which She

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After a particularly rough day at work, during which she got screamed at by her boss, Anja came home and started yelling at her daughter for not putting her laundry away. This is an example of displaced aggression.

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Definitions:

Primacy And Recency Effects

Psychological phenomena where individuals are more likely to remember the first (primacy) and last (recency) items in a series better than those in the middle.

Attribution Errors

Cognitive biases or mistakes in judgment that occur when individuals wrongly attribute the cause of a behavior or event to personal traits, overlooking the role of situational factors.

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

A belief or expectation that brings about its own fulfillment, often influencing behavior that makes the original conception come true.

Attribution Errors

Misjudgments or biases in attributing causes to someone's behavior, often underestimating the influence of external factors and overestimating the influence of internal traits.