Buto Buys a Bus Ticket at a Window in the City

question 12

Multiple Choice

Buto buys a bus ticket at a window in the City Bus Depot before checking his backpack and boarding a bus.In this situation,the subject of a bailment is

• A) Buto.
• B) the backpack.
• C) a seat on the bus.
• D) none of the choices.

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Definitions:

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to underestimate the importance of situational influences and to overestimate personal, dispositional factors as causes of behavior.

Motivational Bias

A cognitive bias that affects the direction of people's behavior by their underlying motives, desires, or needs.

Focus-of-Attention Bias

The tendency to prioritize and remember information that is the focus of one's attention, often at the expense of other information.

Actor-Observer Difference

The bias in attribution whereby actors tend to see their own behavior as due to characteristics of the external situation, whereas observers tend to attribute actors’ behavior to the actors’ internal, personal characteristics.