Sven watched as Adam stepped over a homeless man on the street. Later, when someone asked why Adam ignored the man, Sven and Adam spoke up at the same time. Sven said it was because Adam isn’t a compassionate person and Adam said it was because it was dark and he didn’t see him. Both Sven and Adam’s responses are an example of the _______________.
A) actor-observer bias
B) fundamental attribution error
C) self-serving bias
D) dis positional-situational bias
D) dis positional-situational bias
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A) play B) growth C) difficult D) thinking
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water and felt as though she would drown. Just yesterday someone told her that a shark was seen in the water at the same time she was swimming. Now she is petrified of going into the ocean. This best illustrates A) the inability of the phobic person to direct their attention away from a feared object. B) the "inflation effect. C) the observational learning explanation for phobias. D) classically conditioned generalization based on direct experience.