Question

Which of the following is NOT an example of the fundamental attribution error? You see a man slip on the sidewalk and decide he is clumsy; later, you find that patch of sidewalk is covered with black ice. Your boyfriend brings you flowers and you are immediately suspicious about what he must have done that you will be angry about. The resident assistant in your dorm gives an anti-drinking lecture and you decide she's "no fun," even though you know the lecture is school policy. Your professor can be found at her office at all hours of the day or night, and you decide she's a workaholic, even though you know she's up for promotion soon.

Answer 1

Your boyfriend brings you flowers and you are immediately suspicious about what he must have done that you will be angry about.

Step-by-step explanation:

Also known as matching bias, the fundamental attribution error, as its name implies, affects and distorts the assignments we make. It describes the tendency or willingness to overestimate internal personal dispositions or motives in trying to explain, attribute, or interpret behavior observed in others, underestimating the importance of circumstances. According to this conceptualization, we can state among the options given in the above question that one that does not represent a fundamental attribution error is " Your boyfriend brings you flowers and you are immediately suspicious about what he must have done that you will be angry about."