Question

One of your hallmates, Ling, is an exchange student from Taiwan. Ling never goes out with the other students, goes to bed at 9:30 every night, and studies quietly in her room most of the time. You assume that Ling behaves the way she does because she is Asian. Which of the following attribution errors might you have committed? Group of answer choices

- self-serving bias
- fundamental attribution error
- overattribution
- all of these

Answer 1

Over-attribution

Step-by-step explanation:

Attribution, in social psychology, is defined as the process through which an individual describes the causes of events and behavior and be classified as either external or internal. An internal attribution, an individual describes that a particular event is caused due to personal characteristics like feelings, abilities, and genetic traits.

Example: The self-serving bias.

Henceforth, the over-attribution bias takes place when a person attributes the human behavior or tendency to any causal factor which is most available to the person at any given point.

Also known as the correspondence bias.