GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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the observer is too involved with the other person to be objective
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nonverbal cues can be easily misread
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people’s behavior may not always reflect their true personalities
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Actor-observer bias is the tendency to attribute the behavior of others to internal causes, while attributing our own behavior to external causes. In other words, actors explain their own behavior differently than how an observer would explain the same behavior.
Detailed explanation-2: -Actors and observers give different explanations for the same events. Observers tend to make Dispositional attributions for actors behavior. Actors tend to make situational attributions for own behavior. Linking an instance of behavior to a cause.
Detailed explanation-3: -Observer bias happens when a researcher’s expectations, opinions, or prejudices influence what they perceive or record in a study. It often affects studies where observers are aware of the research aims and hypotheses. Observer bias is also called detection bias.
Detailed explanation-4: -Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to explain others’ actions in terms of dispositional (internal) rather than situational (external) causes. Actor-observer effect: the tendency to attribute our own behavior to situational causes but that of others to internal ones.