In the Survey Project She Is Working On, Dr

question 113

Multiple Choice

In the survey project she is working on, Dr. Miyake finds a correlation of .60 between attachment security and the likelihood with which participants say they would engage in various prosocial behaviors at work. This could mean any of the following EXCEPT this:

• A) Attachment security leads people to behave prosocially at work.
• B) A trait such as extraversion is related to both prosocial behavior and attachment security.
• C) Attachment security and prosocial behavior are unrelated.
• D) Prosocial behavior causes attachment security.

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Definitions:

Internal Causes

Internal causes refer to factors within an individual, such as thoughts, emotions, and physical conditions, that influence their behavior or health.

External Causes

Factors or influences originating outside an individual that significantly affect behaviors, outcomes, or events.

Attribution

The process of explaining one's own behavior and the behavior of others by attributing causes to that behavior, whether internal dispositions or external situations.

Heider

refers to Fritz Heider, an Austrian psychologist recognized for his contributions to attribution theory in social psychology.