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Questions

1. Dr. Malic has conducted a number of experiments to assess whether playing violent video games makes people become more aggressive. He assigns Buddhist monks to play very violent games for an hour a week, and nuns to play very violent games for three hours a week. After a month, he assesses how aggressively they behave in a frustrating situation. He has replicated this study using the same sample of Buddhist monks and nuns twelve times. Construct a testable hypothesis for the researcher. Identify the major threat to internal validity (at least 3) and to external validity (at least 3) in the study. What changes would you make to correct these threats to both internal and external validity?

2. You have a huge fight with your boyfriend. You had made dinner reservations and he showed up to the restaurant 30 minutes late!! You yell at him for being disrespectful and inconsiderate of other people's time. He yells at you for being so sensitive and quick to see the worst in people. In words, briefly define the fundamental attribution error. Explain how the fundamental attribution error could have contributed to this fight - be specific, what are the internal attributions that are made and what are some alternative external attributions that could explain the behavior? How both individuals guilty of the fundamental attribution error?