CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ error is a common mistake in which people overestimate the influence of internal factors on a person’s behavior and underestimate the influence of external factors.
A
attraction
B
persuasion
C
fundamental attribution
D
social perceptions
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The fundamental attribution error is the tendency people have to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors in judging others’ behavior. Because of the fundamental attribution error, we tend to believe that others do bad things because they are bad people.

Detailed explanation-2: -The fundamental attribution error refers to an individual’s tendency to attribute another’s actions to their character or personality, while attributing their behavior to external situational factors outside of their control.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: Concretely, when individuals are inclined to overestimate the influence of some internal/personal factors and underestimate the influence of external/situational factors to explain other’s behavior, they show the cognitive bias known as the fundamental attribution error (c).

Detailed explanation-4: -The fundamental attribution error is a cognitive bias that causes people to underestimate the influence of environment-based situational factors on people’s behavior, and to overestimate the influence of personality-based dispositional factors.

Detailed explanation-5: -What is the Fundamental Attribution Error? The fundamental attribution error (FAE) describes how, when making judgments about people’s behavior, we often overemphasize dispositional factors and downplay situational ones.

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