A Five-Year-Old Child Cannot Maintain a Lawsuit in His Own

question 30

Multiple Choice

A five-year-old child cannot maintain a lawsuit in his own name because a child ________.

• A) is not a real party in interest
• B) lacks the capacity to sue
• C) does not have status to sue
• D) All of these choices.

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Definitions:

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overemphasize dispositional explanations for behaviour at the expense of situational explanations.

Social Category

Groupings of individuals based on shared characteristics or social identity, such as race, gender, or age.

Situational Attribution

Situational attribution is the process of attributing an individual's behavior to external factors or circumstances rather than to their internal characteristics or dispositions.

Consensus Cues

Attribution cues that reflect how a person’s behaviour compares with that of others.