Practice question · Select all that apply
Select every statement that is TRUE of the attribution biases as this lesson describes them.
Hints
- Two options are false: one over-generalises the fundamental attribution error, and one simply reverses a definition.
- Check the fifth option against what the word 'situational' has to mean.
Show the answer
- A. For our own behaviour the tendency reverses toward situations.
- B. Self-serving bias splits our outcomes: success ours, failure circumstantial.
- D. The attribution error concerns how we explain OTHER people.
Why
The fundamental attribution error is about others, the actor-observer bias reverses it for the self, and the self-serving bias splits our own outcomes by valence. Option 3 is the named pitfall of over-generalising, and option 5 inverts the definition - a situational attribution points at the circumstances, not the character.
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