Jahrul's Instructor Was Very Rude the First Day of Class

question 99

Multiple Choice

Jahrul's instructor was very rude the first day of class. Jahrul assumed the instructor was a rude woman. He did not know that she had woken up late, had a car accident on the way to work, and had been locked out of her office. Jahrul is demonstrating

• A)the fundamental attribution error.
• B)self-serving bias.
• C)cognitive dissonance.
• D)the actor-observer effect.
• E)the elaboration likelihood model.

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