You come home from work and find pieces of broken glass on the floor.You realize that your favorite vase was broken.Immediately you blame your new puppy, without even noticing that your toddler's teddy bear is lying on the floor near the broken glass.The fact that you didn't see the teddy bear is probably due to

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The best choice is B, the schema that puppies are destructive. A schema is a mental framework that helps people organize and interpret information. In this case, the schema that puppies are destructive has influenced the person's perception of the situation, causing them to immediately blame the puppy without considering other possibilities. The other options are less applicable to this scenario. Poor vision or unconscious transference would not necessarily explain why the person overlooked the teddy bear, and source-monitoring errors typically refer to difficulties distinguishing between imagined and experienced events.

You Come Home from Work and Find Pieces of Broken