The tendency for a person with stereotyped beliefs about a particular group of people to make internal attributions for their shortcomings and external attributions for their successes is known as the ________.

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The described tendency is known as the ultimate attribution error, where individuals make internal attributions (blaming the person's traits) for negative outcomes experienced by outgroup members and external attributions (attributing success to situational factors) for their positive outcomes. The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overemphasize dispositional (personality) explanations for others' behavior rather than considering situational factors. The actor-observer effect is the tendency to attribute one's own behavior to situational factors and others' behavior to dispositional factors. Self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal factors and failures to external factors.

The Tendency for a Person with Stereotyped Beliefs About a Particular