One day you walk past your Adult Development and Aging professor and say "Hi," but your instructor does not respond. You decide that she is rude, but what you failed to notice is that she was in deep conversation with the chair of her department and other faculty and did not hear you. This is an example of a

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This scenario is an example of correspondence bias, also known as the fundamental attribution error, where we tend to attribute a person's behavior to their personality or character rather than the situation or context they are in. In this case, the person assumed the instructor was rude without considering the possibility that she did not hear them because she was engaged in a conversation.

One Day You Walk Past Your Adult Development and Aging