The tendency most people have to discount situational explanations of behavior in favor of personality characteristics or traits is called the
a. character bias.
b. discounting effect.
c. fundamental attribution error.
d. blame assignment bias.
Answer: C
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a. excessive dieting. c. binge eating and purging. b. excessive exercising. d. all of these
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A. whether or not pigeons can see color. B. whether or not pigeons have feature detectors. C. how much contrast a grating must have before it looks different from the gray circle to a pigeon. D. whether pigeons are intelligent enough to learn to peck one stimulus rather than another.
Lily is looking to obtain a representative sample of fraternity members for her study. There are 80 fraternities at her university, and she uses a random number generator to help her select 15. She then uses a random number generator to select five members of each fraternity that made her first cut. Which sampling method is Lily using?
A. systematic random sampling B. stratified sampling C. proportionate stratified sampling D. cluster sampling