Brittany Is Arguing with Michael About His Article in the School

question 28

Multiple Choice

Brittany is arguing with Michael about his article in the school newspaper,in which Michael advocates raising student tuition.Michael claims that Brittany is committing the fundamental attribution error.This means that Brittany did which of the following?

• A)assumed that Michael was not really pro tuition increase,and agreed that Michael only wrote the article because the editor asked him to write the article
• B)thought that Michael wrote the article equally because he is pro tuition increase and because he is personally pro tuition
• C)thought that Michael's perspective on tuition increase depended on the perspectives of people around him
• D)ignored the fact that Michael was asked by the editor to write the article,and asserted that Michael wrote it only because he is personally pro tuition increase
• E)thought that Michael's perspective on tuition increase was due to both situational and dispositional attributions,in equal amounts

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