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?

a. self-serving bias
b. fundamental attribution error
c. overattribution
d. all of these

Answer 1

The correct answer is c. Overattribution.

Step-by-step explanation:

The over attribution error, also known as over attribution bias, or correspondence bias, is the tendency that individuals have to attribute a particular person's behavior to a causal factor that's more available to them at the moment. It is one type of fundamental attribution error.

A common example of over attribution is for example when a person is very athletic, good at sports, runs fasts, and someone would say that the person has all of those abilities because he/she is from a certain race.

In this particular case, the person is assuming that Ling behaves so conscientiously because she is Asian. That's an over-attribution error.