Which of the Following Items Does NOT Accurately Characterize Attribution

question 181

Multiple Choice

Which of the following items does NOT accurately characterize attribution?

• A)People try to explain what they observe and what happens to them.
• B)The process of developing causal explanations for things that happen to people is called attribution.
• C)The self-serving bias and the fundamental attribution error provide explanations of the factors that people use in explaining their own and others' behaviour.
• D)Attributions can have a profound effect in work settings.
• E)People tend to perceive the same things in the same way.

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