Sabini and colleagues (2001) suggest the reason for fundamental attribution error is a tendency to underestimate the power of motives (such as motive to 'save face') called:
a. self-serving attributional motives
b. channel factors
c. global recognition
d. locus of control motives
b
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a. caregiving styles of the adoptive parents. b. age of the adoptive parents. c. SES of the adoptive parents. d. age at which child was separated from the temporary foster parents.
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People who are continually searching for others whom they can admire for their beauty, intelligence, or moral stature are called:
a. mirror-hungry personalities b. superego personalities c. ideal-hungry personalities d. narcissism-hungry personalities
When a child performs poorly on an activity, parents and teachers should
a. focus on the child's impaired ability and retrain the child to become "smarter" in that ability. b. isolate the negative attribute and help the child relearn the right way to perform the task. c. identify the impoverished ability and test the child on it repeatedly until the child is familiar enough with the proper way to handle the task. d. attribute the child's poor performance to the child's effort rather than to his or her ability.