Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 1-1 Gabrielle Wants Very Much

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Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 1-1 Gabrielle wants very much to get a job in television. Each day she visits local television station websites and peruses the Help Wanted sections. To her surprise, there is an opening for a production assistant at Channel 30. To apply for the job, applicants must download a form from the Channel 30 website, fill it out, and then email it to the human resources manager. The form is a Microsoft Word 2013 document. Gabrielle is very excited and rushing. She continually types "teh" instead of "the." Fortunately, the _______.

• A) AutoCorrect feature corrects it automatically
• B) spelling checker corrects it automatically
• C) AutoComplete feature corrects it automatically
• D) grammar checker corrects it automatically

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Definitions:

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to attribute others' actions to their character or personality while underestimating situational influences.

Defensive Attribution

A cognitive bias that leads individuals to attribute more blame to victims of misfortune than is warranted, often to believe that such events would not happen to themselves.

Illusory Correlation

The perception of a relationship between two variables when no such relationship exists, often a result of cognitive biases.

Self-Serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute one's successes to personal characteristics and failures to external factors.