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CUET Psychology 2022 · Psychology · 5 questions

In our day-to day life, we assign certain causes or reasons to a person's behaviour. This process is called attribution. Broadly, causes of a person are attributed to internal and external factors. Internal factors are related to situation. With reference to success and failure, Weiner has classified causes into internal/external and stable/unstable factors. In general, people attribute success to internal factors such as their ability and hard work. However, failure is attributed to external factors such as task difficulty and bad luck. Ability/fate and hard-work/task-difficulty are considered as stable and unstable factors respectively. Stable factors refer to those causes that do not change with time. It has been observed that people have a tendency to give greater weightage to internal factors than external one. This phenomenon is called the fundamental attribution error. This tendency is stronger in some cultures than in others. Research suggests that Indians tend to make more external attributions than Americans do.

Question 1

Match List - I with List - II. List - I (Characteristics) | List - II (Causal factors) (A) Task characteristics | (I) Internal-stable (B) Hard work | (II) External-stable (C) Fate | (III) Unstable-Internal (D) Ability | (IV) Unstable-External Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
  1. A. (A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)
  2. B. (A) - (II), (B) - (IV), (C) - (III), (D) - (I)
  3. C. (A) - (III), (B) - (I), (C) - (IV), (D) - (II)
  4. D. (A) - (IV), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (I)

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Question 2

As per Weiner, if person A gives greater weightage to internal factors, then which one of the following will hold true for A?
  1. A. The task characteristic
  2. B. A's intelligence
  3. C. A's luck
  4. D. Pleasant weather conditions

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Question 4

Fundamental attribution error is known as a tendency to give greater weightage to :
  1. A. external factors than internal factors
  2. B. stable factors than unstable factors
  3. C. internal factors than external factors
  4. D. unstable factors than stable factors

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