Dr. Mitchell is a brilliant lecturer who strongly prefers reading to the company of others. Despite being an introvert, however,
she is VERY outgoing while she lectures. She is so outgoing during lecturing that her students commit the _______ in labeling her an extrovert. A. fundamental attribution error
B. faulty judgment error
C. saliency bias
D. self-serving error
The fundamental attribution error is how we tend to focus on over emphasizing people's behavior as the result of their personality and tend to give less focus or under emphasize situational causes of those behavior.
This means when people behave a particular way our cognitive bias tend to deviate towards believing that it is because of their personality rather than considering the fact that they may also be influenced by social and environmental forces.
Dr Mitchell is introvert but being in a lecture room(social setting) changes him into being extrovert then the students assume that her personality based character.
Explanation: Fundamental attribution error is the tendency of others to explain another persons behaviour based on personality or disposition and give little or no concern for other external factors such as situation surrounding the persons behaviour at that particular point in time.
According to the question, Dr. Mitchell's behaviour during lectures is far different to her behaviour when she is alone or with others. Due to her behaviour during lectures her students labelled her an extrovert when in actual sense she is an introvert. Her out going behaviour during lectures can be associated with her surrounding which is the lecture room and students while her personality is she like being alone reading.
Explanation:This is a characteristic of data that describes the importance of the data to the decision or objective at hand. A change in this data will invariably reflect a change in an important variable. This means that data in this respect has a valuable effect on a change variable which is important for the goal. Therefore the question in the above example,"will a change in the data coincide with a change in some important outcome".
Because due to Russia falling to communism in the 20’s and 30’s and parts of Europe the rise of communism in some states in the 40’s and 50’s the political climate between the US capitalists and the USSR communists caused friction for many years
Cognitive dissonance asserts that to reduce discomfort when external inducements are insufficient to justify our behavior, we justify our our behavior or actions to ourselves. It refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors which produces a feeling of mental discomfort leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes, beliefs or behaviors to reduce the discomfort and restore balance.
