Antonio,who averages 28 points a game for his basketball team,scored only 8 points in tonight's game.The other players believe that he was "slacking off," but in reality he was playing despite an injury.Antonio's teammates have committed

A) cognitive dissonance.
B) the fundamental attribution error.
C) the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
D) an attitude.

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Andre Ionescu · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : B, Explanation :  The fundamental attribution error occurs when people tend to overemphasize dispositional (internal) explanations for someone's behavior and underestimate situational (external) explanations. In this case, Antonio's teammates are assuming that he is slacking off due to a dispositional explanation (i.e. he is lazy or not trying hard enough), when in reality there is a situational explanation (i.e. he is injured).

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