Question

People tend to attribute their own behaviors to situational factors, but to attribute others' behaviors to dispositional factors. This pattern is known as
A. the fundamental attribution error.
B. the ultimate attribution error.
C. the self-serving bias.
D. the actor-observer effect.

Answer 1

A. The fundamental attribution error

Answer 2

Answer:

A. the fundamental attribution error.

Explanation:

A fundamental attribution error is a common inclination to stress personal characteristics while ignoring the situational factors when judging the behavior of others.

In contrast to things happening to oneself, the error lies in this tendency to make people personality to be blamed , disregardin the contextual variables.

The situations surrounding someones decision or behavior are often not seen, and they are underestimated.

A clear example is when someone arrives late, we assume he lacks responsability, while if the same happened to us, we would argue that the traffic or something came in suddenly.

Therefore, the fundamental attribution error is an important bias when judgin others behavior and is frequently a subject to be conscious when studying social psychology.