Marc's manager saw him come back late from lunch one day.Marc was late because he had been working out a problem with a client.However,Marc's manager assumed Marc just took a long lunch because Marc is a slacker.It is likely his manager made a(n) _______ error.
A)stereotyping
B)bias
C)attribution
D)proximity

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Marc's manager made an attribution error by assuming the cause of Marc's behavior was due to his personality (being a slacker), rather than attributing it to the situation (working out a problem with a client). Stereotyping and bias may play a role in the manager's assumptions, but the specific error in this situation is an attribution error. Proximity is not relevant to this scenario.

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