Question

irene is speeding because she is late to her exam. the officer initially assumes irene is just an irresponsible teenage driver. after irene explains her story, the officer decides most people would also speed in her situation and lets her off with a warning. which psychological theories explain the officer's initial and final judgments, respectively? question 8 options: a) actor-observer effect; covariation theory b) actor-observer effect; correspondent inference theory c) fundamental attribution error; correspondent inference theory d) fundamental attribution error; covariation theory

Answer 1

The officer's initial judgment is based on the fundamental attribution error, and the final judgment upon understanding her situation aligns with the correspondence inference theory.

Step-by-step explanation:

The psychological theories that explain the officer's initial and final judgments of Irene's speeding behavior are the fundamental attribution error and the correspondence inference theory, respectively. Initially, the officer attributes Irene's behavior to her personality or character, which is consistent with the fundamental attribution error, where people tend to overemphasize dispositional factors and underestimate situational factors when explaining the behaviors of others. Upon hearing Irene's explanation and recognizing that many people might behave similarly if they were late to an important event, the officer uses the correspondence inference theory to link Irene's situational circumstances to her behavior and decides to give her a warning based on the covariation of her behavior with the context of the situation.