A fleet of large trucks arrived in the mall parking lot after Janelle parked her car. When she returned to the lot she could not find her small vehicle in the maze of huge trucks. It took her at least half an hour of searching before she located her car. When telling the story to her family her husband remarked, "No one could be stupid enough to lose their car in a parking lot. Come on; tell me you are not that dumb." Her husband's error can be characterized as ______________.  

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A fleet of large trucks arrived in the mall parking lot after Janelle parked her car. When she returned to the lot she could not find her small vehicle in the maze of huge trucks. It took her at least half an hour of searching before she located her car. When telling the story to her family her husband remarked, "No one could be stupid enough to lose their car in a parking lot. Come on; tell me you are not that dumb." Her husband's error can be characterized as ______________.  
A. self-serving bias 
B. fundamental attribution error
 C. halo effect 
D. assumed-similarity bias

could it be B or D?

PsyDAG · Answer

http://drdavespsychologypage.intuitwebsites.com/Attribution_Errors.pdf http://drdavespsychologypage.intuitwebsites.com/Attribution_Theory_____Explaining_Behavior.pdf