Author Question: Taking personal credit for successes and blaming external forces for our failures is called the ... (Read 88 times)

newbem · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Taking personal credit for successes and blaming external forces for our failures is called the

A) actor-observer difference.
B) self-serving bias.
C) correspondence bias.
D) fundamental attribution error.

Question 2

Marcelo wonders if people masturbate because they do not have partners available to have sex with. He predicts that people having frequent sex will masturbate less, and that people who have less sex will masturbate more due to their deprivation"

He creates a survey to ask people how frequently they currently have sex and how frequently they masturbate. He finds the opposite of his prediction Marcelo's experience is an example of
A) why scientific methods can confuse our beliefs with inconsistent findings.
B) how scientific methods are inferior to intuition because people clearly masturbate when they do not have sexual partners available.
C) using scientific methods to test a hypothesis and gain information about sexuality.
D) an incomplete use of the scientific method.