Michelle's 6-Year-Old Son Is Behaving Very Poorly in a Restaurant

question 90

Multiple Choice

Michelle's 6-year-old son is behaving very poorly in a restaurant.Michelle tells her friend that he is behaving badly because he is tired.Michelle's friend thinks the behavior results from poor parenting.Both explanations are examples of

• A) cognitive dissonance.
• B) an attitude.
• C) an attribution.
• D) the fundamental attribution error.

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