Your friend walks past you without speaking to you.You conclude that because your friend is taking an overload of classes this semester, s/he is preoccupied and did not see you.This illustrates
A)your unwillingness to categorize your friend according to another personal construct.
B)the degree of complexity of your set of personal constructs.
C)your set of beliefs of what people are like.
D)how we try to explain the motives and causes of people's behaviour.

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This scenario illustrates how we try to explain the motives and causes of people's behavior. We are trying to understand why our friend didn't speak to us, and we come up with a potential explanation based on our knowledge of their current situation (overload of classes). This involves making inferences and drawing conclusions about our friend's behavior, which is a key aspect of attribution theory.

Your Friend Walks Past You Without Speaking to You