GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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attributing one’s successes to personality factors & failures to external factors
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beliefs about groups in which we think we belong
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Explanation of other people’s behavior based on personality or external factors
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describes process people go through to explain the causes of behavior
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Detailed explanation-1: -The actor-observer bias is a term in social psychology that refers to a tendency to attribute one’s own actions to external causes while attributing other people’s behaviors to internal causes. It is a type of attributional bias that plays a role in how people perceive and interact with other people.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Which of the following is an example of actor-observer bias? Akbar believes he is unable to stop gambling because his friends all gamble and are a bad influence, yet Tim is unable to stop gambling because he is addicted to gambling.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Observer bias is when the results of an experiment are influenced by a researcher’s expectations. For example, If you expect that a certain place will be dirty and smelly, you might be more likely to notice trash or bad smells than if you expected the place to be clean and pleasant.