Question

Someone who tends to look for internal, stable causes to explain behavior will be more vulnerable to which of the following? a. fundamental attribution error b. false consensus effect c. actor-observer bias d. false uniqueness bias

Answer 1

Answer: a

Fundamental attribution Error

Explanation: Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) or Attribution Effect is defined in social psychology as the tendency for people to under emphasize a situational explanation for a behaviour the observed in an

individual while over emphasizing the dispositional and personality based explanations for that behavior they observe. The believe that what people do reflects who they are is widely believed because of this effect.