Dr Mitchell Is 15 Minutes Late to Class and When

Dr. Mitchell is 15 minutes late to class and when she comes in, she goes right into her lecture without explaining to the students why she was late. The students assume that she is just lazy and did not care about being on time, when in fact she was late because her daughter was ill and she had to arrange childcare at the last minute. The students have made the ________.

A) saliency bias
B) self-serving error
C) faulty judgment error
D) fundamental attribution error