Author Question: Ming is from China; Tyrone is from Canada. Both participate in an experiment in which they take a ... (Read 66 times)

Deast7027 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Ming is from China; Tyrone is from Canada. Both participate in an experiment in which they take a test, are given feedback and told that they did very well, and then are asked to make attributions for their performance.

Based on cross-cultural research on the self-serving bias, you would expect that
a. both Ming and Tyrone will say that they succeeded due to their high ability.
b. Ming, but not Tyrone, will say that he succeeded due to his high ability.
c. Tyrone, but not Ming, will say he succeeded due to his high ability.
d. both Ming and Tyrone will say that they succeeded because the test was easy.

Question 2

The authors of your text suggest people from both Eastern and Western cultures share which aspect of the fundamental attribution error?

a. Both cultures do not take situational aspects into account enough.
b. Neither culture accounts for personal factors adequately.
c. Both cultures make initial, automatic dispositional attributions.
d. Neither culture relies on controlled processes.