Zack arrived late for a meeting this morning because there was a 20 -car pile-up on the beltway.Ryan,his manager,assumed Zack overslept because he partied too much last night.Which of the following statements is most accurate?
A)Ryan committed a fundamental attribution error.
B)Zack committed a fundamental attribution error.
C)Zack used the ladder of inference.
D)Zack used the self-serving bias.
E)Ryan used the self-serving bias.

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Ryan made a mistake in attributing the cause of Zack's lateness solely to his internal, dispositional factors (partying too much) and neglecting external, situational factors (the 20-car pile-up). This is known as a fundamental attribution error.

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