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Your new housemate comes home from on-campus registration, throws his coat angrily on the floor, goes to his room, and slams the door without greeting you. You conclude that your housemate is a hostile, unfriendly person. Your conclusion is the result of ____.
 
  a. self-serving bias
  b. the fundamental attribution error
  c. situational bias
  d. cognitive reappraisal

Question 2

Devin is running to catch a bus when he sees a person trip and fall. As Devin is getting on the bus, he sees another man walk right past the person in need of help. Devin thinks to himself, I can't believe that man didn't help that person. He is really a selfish person. I would have helped, if I hadn't been in such a hurry. He is displaying ____.
 
  a. actor-observer effect
  b. fundamental attribution error
  c. unique invulnerability bias
  d. ultimate attribution error



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Answer to Question 1

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