Question

Leila saw a man treat a passerby rudely. Shortly after that, she saw him slip and fall to the ground. She immediately thought, "What a clumsy man," without acknowledging that he had walked onto a patch of ice. Leila is demonstrating the fundamental attribution error because:_____
A. the thought was immediate
B. the person was actually clumsy
C. she projected her own clumsiness onto the man
D. she blamed his fall on his being clumsy
E. she thought he got what he deserved

Answer 1

Answer:

D. she blamed his fall on his being clumsy

Explanation:

Fundamental attribution error is a term in social psychology which describes how individual, judges people's actions, by giving too much causal weight to the character of people involved, rather than to the circumstances in which those people acted.

It is often known as correspondence bias or attribution effect.

In other words, it is the defined as the tendency for individual to put much emphasis on dispositional and personality-based explanations on actions of people, while putting less empahsis on situational explanations for actions obeserved from the people's behavior or action.

Hence, in this case, Leila is blaming the man's fall on being clumsy, rather than acknowledging the fact that his fall is due to walking on a patch of ice.