The Mental Process of Inferring the Causes of People's Behavior

question 19

Multiple Choice

The mental process of inferring the causes of people's behavior, including one's own, is called:

• A) altruism.
• B) ethnocentrism.
• C) attribution.
• D) prejudice.

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