Question

While watching Jeopardy!, your roommate says, "Alex Trebek knows all the answers. He must be a genius." You tell your roommate she probably would not have said that if she had attended class the day the instructor discussed the topic of ________.
A. stereotype threat.
B. Stereotyping illusions.
C. Fundamental attribution errors.
D. Social facilitation.

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Fundamental attribution errors.  

Explanation:

Fundamental attribution error, in psychology, is determined as the proclivity of a person to 'overemphasize' or 'overestimate' a few personal or dispositional characters while ignoring situational or environmental factors in the process of judging someone else's behavior, for instance, if some misfortune happens with a person then he or she is being blamed by the other person for the same because the person feels his or her inappropriate behavior leads to that misfortune.

The correct answer for the question above is the fundamental attribution error.