If a student rates all her professors' average on all dimensions of performance regardless of their actual performance,she is committing which of the following perceptual errors?
A) Self-serving bias
B) Central tendency
C) Contrast effect
D) Recency effect
E) Halo

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The student is committing the central tendency error by rating all professors as average across all dimensions of performance, regardless of their actual performance. This error occurs when individuals avoid making extreme judgments and rate everything as average or close to average.

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