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waynest

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Our tendency to believe that our own behavior reflects external causes and that other people's behavior reflects internal causes is known as ________.
 
  A) the actor-observer effect
  B) explicit theory formation
  C) the fundamental attribution error
  D) implicit theory formation
  E) the correspondence bias

Question 2

The concept of complex causality is
 
  A) the idea that everything is caused by fate.
  B) the idea that people always have complete control over their own outcomes.
  C) the idea that many causes play a part in an event and no one cause is essential.
  D) incongruent with most Asian ways of thinking.
  E) predominantly a Western way of thinking about causality.



sarahccccc

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C



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