Exam 6: The Fundamental Attribution Error

Burger and Pavelich (1994)found that voters were more likely to attribute the outcome of an election to a candidate's personal traits and positions the day after a presidential election,and to a nation's economy a year after the election.This represents which of the following explanations for the fundamental attribution error?

In their Fidel Castro study,Jones and Harris (1967)reported that

People in Western cultures are more inclined to assume that others' behaviors

In a study conducted by Lassiter and his colleagues (2002),participants observed a suspect confessing during a police interview.The results indicated that participants were more likely to perceive the confession as genuine when they viewed the confession

According to Malle's (2006)analysis of research on the actor-observer difference,we are more likely to attribute our behavior to the situation when

Which of the following best illustrates the fundamental attribution error?

Those who make regarding poverty and unemployment tend to adopt political positions that

What commands our attention as we shop for groceries each week is the environment around us,such as the number of people in front of us at the checkout counter.Yet,when we watch another person's behavior at the grocery store,he or she,rather than the environment,occupies the center of our attention.As a result,we tend to engage in the attribution error.That is,we are irritable because the lines are long,but the other person is cantankerous because he or she is an unhappy person.Which of the following best explains this use of the fundamental attribution error?

According to Daniel Lassiter's research (2002)on the camera perspective bias,New Zealand and some parts of Canada and the United States now require that police interrogations be filmed with

In a study conducted by Lassiter and his colleagues (2002),participants observed a suspect confessing during a police interview.The results indicated that participants were more likely to perceive the confession was coerced when they viewed the confession

Those who make regarding poverty and unemployment tend to adopt political positions that

According to the text,observers tend to attribute a person's behavior to _____ the more the time passes.

We tend to underestimate the situational determinants of others' behavior but not our own because we observe others from a different perspective than we observe ourselves.This is known as the

Based on the experiments conducted by Jerry Burger and Julie Pavelich (1994)and Pronin and Ross (2006),which of the following is the most likely reason for the attribution error?

In _____ cultures,people are less likely to perceive others in terms of personal dispositions.

Inferring that Cinderella is truly meek as she cowers in her oppressive home is an example of how we often

Researchers randomly assigned participants to play the part of either a quiz game contestant or a host,while other participants merely observed the game.Results indicated that

According to a study by Burger and Pavelich (1994),voters were more likely to attribute the outcome of an election to _____ the day after a presidential election,and to a _____ a year after the election.