MCQ

What are the fundamental attribution error?

102. Under conditions of high consensus, low consistency, and high distinctiveness, the perceiver will tend to attribute the behavior of the perceived to:

a.	internal causes
b.	external causes
c.	personality traits
d.	ability

ANS: B

103. Under conditions of low consensus, low distinctiveness, and high consistency, the perceiver will tend to attribute the behavior of the perceived to:

a.	external causes
b.	the situation
c.	internal causes
d.	other people

ANS: C

104. During the 2008 presidential election, a Democrat newspaper editor wrote an editorial arguing that John McCain had a basic character flaw, since he had apparently behaved unethically in a business deal and had been accused of insider trading. The author of the editorial was hoping that readers would develop a(n):

a.	external attribution
b.	fundamental attribution error
c.	self-serving bias error
d.	internal attribution

ANS: D

105. Members of a student team in Professor Miller's organizational behavior class have approached her with a problem. The team members are complaining that Ben, a member of their team, has been late or absent for almost all team meetings and therefore should receive a lower grade on the team project. Professor Miller concludes that Ben had the same opportunity to participate as everyone else on the team, and therefore assigned the lower grade without consulting Ben. In this decision, Professor Miller may have demonstrated: