Simon laughed long and hard when he saw his mother slip and fall.Neither his sister nor his father laughed when they saw her fall.Simon has seen both his mother and other people fall before,but didn't laugh then.According to Kelley's covariation model,observers privy to this information are likely to assume that

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According to Kelley's covariation model, people tend to attribute behavior to either internal or external causes based on three types of information: consensus (whether other people in the situation would behave similarly), distinctiveness (whether the behavior is specific to that situation), and consistency (whether the behavior is consistent across time). In this scenario, there is no information about consensus or consistency, but there is information about distinctiveness - Simon laughed only in this particular incident, but not in previous incidents of people falling. Therefore, observers may assume that there was something peculiar about this incident that made Simon laugh, which is consistent with choice B.

Simon Laughed Long and Hard When He Saw His Mother