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faduma

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The tendency for people to take credit for their successes but blame failures on other people or on outside circumstances is known as ____.
 
  a. the fundamental attribution error
  b. the actor-observer effect
  c. self-handicapping
  d. the self-serving bias

Question 2

Social psychologists distinguish between two major routes to persuasion: central and peripheral. As described in the textbook, these terms are more or less interchangeable with the terms ____.
 
  a. systematic and heuristic processing, respectively
  b. implicit and explicit reception, respectively
  c. unelaborated and elaborated processing, respectively
  d. normative and informational persuasion, respectively


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bassamabas

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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faduma

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Reply #2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Thank you


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