Norman heads the animation team of Progress Inc. When one of his subordinates failed to execute a task properly, he said that his subordinate was not provided with enough resources to take care of the quality assurance after production. This judgment made by Norman is an instance of _____.

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Norman's judgment that his subordinate was not provided with enough resources to take care of quality assurance after production is an external attribution, as he is attributing the cause of the poor execution to external factors, such as the lack of resources. This is different from the fundamental attribution error, which is the tendency to attribute the behavior of others to their internal characteristics rather than external factors. The self-serving bias involves attributing our successes to internal factors and our failures to external factors. Perceptual defense involves our tendency to protect ourselves from perceiving threatening stimuli.

Norman Heads the Animation Team of Progress Inc