Carry made a friend named Martina while in college.Martina's boyfriend likes to go to bars to drink and makes Martina go there with him.Carry knows that Martina's boyfriend makes her go to the bars but still thinks Martina goes because she likes to.The term that best describes Carry's thoughts is
A) situational attributions.
B) naïve dialecticism.
C) dispositional attributions.
D) articulatory suppression.
E) fundamental attribution error.

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Carry is making the fundamental attribution error by assuming Martina's behavior (going to bars) is due to her disposition (liking it) rather than the situational pressure from her boyfriend.

Carry Made a Friend Named Martina While in College