When their friend Vincent was walking down the hall after a pleasant conversation, Neil and Michaela watched as he suddenly tripped and fell to the floor, scattering his schoolbooks all over the hallway. They ran over to him, helped him pick up his books, and commented, "I didn't know that the floor was so slippery in this part of the hall!" Neil and Michaela have made a(n)________ attribution to explain why Vincent fell over.

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Neil and Michaela are attributing Vincent's fall to a situational factor, specifically the slipperiness of the floor. They are not making any assumptions about Vincent's personality or abilities, so dispositional and assistive attributions do not apply. Cooperative is not a relevant attribution in this context.

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