AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or over-attribution effect) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional, or personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing situational explanations.

Detailed explanation-2: -The fundamental attribution error is the tendency people have to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors in judging others’ behavior. Because of the fundamental attribution error, we tend to believe that others do bad things because they are bad people.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: Concretely, when individuals are inclined to overestimate the influence of some internal/personal factors and underestimate the influence of external/situational factors to explain other’s behavior, they show the cognitive bias known as the fundamental attribution error (c).

Detailed explanation-4: -Attribution bias is the tendency to explain a person’s behaviour by referring to their character rather than any situational factor. In essence, it leads us to overestimate the weight of someone’s personality traits, and underestimate the influence of their individual circumstances.

Detailed explanation-5: -This inclination to over exaggerate the influence of behavior, personality traits, motives, etc. and underestimate the power of external factors in a given situation is known as the fundamental attribution error or FAE (Amabile, Ross, and Steinmetz, 1977).