Kara gets an f on her social psychology exam. then she goes home and gets into an argument with her roommate, lee. lee assumes kara is yelling at him because she likes
to bully him, not because she had a bad day. lee is making a
a. central attitude shift
b. central attribution error
c. fundamental attitude shift
d. fundamental attribution error

A) Fundamental attribution error

Explanation:

a Fundamental attribution is committed when people believe that the behaviour a person displays is the result of personality, instead of it being the result of an external factor,

In this question, we do not know whether Kara is a person who is prone to anger, but what we do know is that she is experiencing a lot of frustration because she got an F in her exam.

Kara could possibly be a very calm person who rarely gets into arguments with people, and Lee might not be taking into account her usual behaviour but the contigent attitute she is displaying, without wondering if something other than her personality might have caused this shift in behaviour.

because he was a christian?

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.