Ed and Violet just saw their professor slip and fall. Ed thinks, "What a klutz!" but Violet thinks, "I bet there was water on the floor, and she slipped on it." In this case, Ed made an ________ attribution and Violet made a(n) ________ attribution

Which of the following is an essential feature of the experimental method?

a. hypothesis b. confounding variable c. correlation d. theoretical derivation

We make the fundamental attribution error

a. most often when we explain the causes of our own behavior. b. when we overestimate the significance of dispositional factors and underestimate situational factors in attributing the causes of others' behavior. c. when we underestimate the importance of distinctive behavior. d. when we rely more on the observations of others and less on our own in attributing the causes of behavior. e. most often in groupthink situations.