Mrs. Parker visits a neighbor's home for the first time. The house is cluttered and poorly kept. Mrs. Parker does not consider that her neighbor may be juggling two jobs, a lengthy commute, and the demands of child care. Instead, she simply concludes that her neighbor is a slob. Mrs. Parker is illustrating the:

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Mrs. Parker visits a neighbor's home for the first time. The house is cluttered and poorly kept. Mrs. Parker does not consider that her neighbor may be juggling two jobs, a lengthy commute, and the demands of child care. Instead, she simply concludes that her neighbor is a slob. Mrs. Parker is illustrating the:

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Ethan Leonard · Answer 1

Fundamental attribution error

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In psychology, the fundamental attribution error refers to the tendency to explain someone else's behavior based on internal factors (like personality or traits) and to underestimate the influence that external factors (situational influences) have on their behavior. In other words, we attribute the behavior to internal factors instead of attributing it to external influences.

In this example, Mrs. Parker neighbor's house is cluttered and poorly kept, she doesn't consider that her neighbor may have two jobs, a lengthy commute or demands of child care (situational influences) but she concludes that her neighbor is a slob (internal factor). In other words, she is attributing the cluttering to internal factors instead of external influences. Therefore, Mrs. Parker is illustrating the fundamental attribution error.