You Are Walking into a Store When a Man Rudely

question 243

Multiple Choice

You are walking into a store when a man rudely cuts in front of you, almost shoving you, so that he may enter the store first."What a jerk!" you think to yourself.As you enter the store, you see the same man performing an emergency tracheotomy on a women with a collapsed windpipe.You have just

• A)discounted a person's actions due to situational demands.
• B)self-handicapped.
• C)overemphasized the object in this action sequence.
• D)made the fundamental attribution error.

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