Author Question: When people explain their own behavior by making a situational attribution and the behavior of ... (Read 57 times)

folubunmi · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

When people explain their own behavior by making a situational attribution and the behavior of others by making a dispositional attribution it is called

a. stereotyping.
b. the fundamental attribution error. c. self-serving bias.
d. self-fulfilling prophecy.
e. the actor-observer effect.

Question 2

While changing her tire, Marguerite bumped the hubcap and all of the lug nuts fell into a storm sewer. After fretting for several minutes, she suddenly realized she could remove one lug nut from each of the other three tires to temporarily mount the spare until she could get to a service station. This is an example of

a. superstitious behavior.
b. insight learning.
c. spontaneous recovery.
d. shaping.
e. latent learning.