Question

While eating at a restaurant, you see a waiter s serving tray tilt and an avalanche of food and beverages splatters on four people. What a careless, clumsy idiot, you mumble to yourself as you resume eating. You have just committed an attributional bias called:
A. hindsight bias.
B. the self-serving bias.
C. the self-effacing bias.
D. the fundamental attribution error.

Answer 1

Answer:

D. The fundamental attribution error

Explanation:

The fundamental attrubution error is the likeliness for individuals to over emphasize personality based explanations for actions observed in others while under emphasizing situational explanations. It is a bias in which an individual action is said to depend on the type of person he is. What the individual committed in this case is fundamental attribution error also called correspondence bias or over attributional effect. With this bias, it is not believed that social and environmental factors influences individual actions.