Jenna meets a man and is told that he is either a poet or an accountant. He has long hair and wears sandals and a tie-dyed shirt. She assumes he is a poet. This is an example of the:

A. schema.

B. social cognition effect.

C. fundamental attribution error.

D. representativeness heuristic.

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Allisson Harrell

19 July, 00:28

Jenna meets a man and is told that he is either a poet or an accountant. He has long hair and wears sandals and a tie-dyed shirt. She assumes he is a poet. This is an example of the:

A. schema.

B. social cognition effect.

C. fundamental attribution error.

D. representativeness heuristic.

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Alvaro Spears · Answer 1

The above statement is an example of fundamental attribution error. Which is letter C. the fundamental attribution error, also known as the correspondence bias or attribution effect, is the tendency for people to place an undue emphasis on internal characteristics of the agent (character or intention), rather than external factors,

Jenna meets a man and is told that he is either a poet or an accountant. He has long hair and wears sandals and a tie-dyed shirt. She assumes he is a poet. This is an example of the:A. schema.B. social cognition effect.C. fundamental attribution error.D. representativeness heuristic.

Jenna meets a man and is told that he is either a poet or an accountant. He has long hair and wears sandals and a tie-dyed shirt. She assumes he is a poet. This is an example of the:

A. schema.

B. social cognition effect.

C. fundamental attribution error.

D. representativeness heuristic.