Question

When people make the ____________________, they tend to underestimate the situational constraints on people’s behavior.

A) primary attributional fault
B) cognitive failure error
C) principal retribution inaccuracy
D) fundamental intervention error
E) fundamental attribution error

Answer 1

E) fundamental attribution error

Step-by-step explanation:

Fundamental attribution error: It was developed by one of the social psychologists named Lee Ross during 1977.

In psychology, the term fundamental attribution error is defined as an individual's propensity to describe or overemphasize the other person's behavior based on dispositional or internal factors, for example, the personality of the person whereby underestimating the causes of external factors, for example, situational influences that can affect the person's behavior.