SCENARIO 2-2 Work on your team is difficult because of the other two individuals.The work has been divided among the three of you,but each time your team meets Janet and Jim disagree about the progress that the team has made on the project.Janet is convinced that Jim's lack of progress is because he is an inherently lazy male rather than because some information is still not available to him because Janet has not completed some of her work according to the schedule she agreed to.The truth seems to be that Janet is not doing her part of the work.
-Referring to Scenario 2-2,Janet seems to be guilty of
A)proximity bias.
B)ethnocentrism.
C)fundamental attribution error.
D)self-serving bias.
E)selective perception.

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Janet is making a fundamental attribution error by attributing Jim's lack of progress to his inherent laziness, rather than considering external factors such as the incomplete work on her own part.

SCENARIO 2-2 Work on Your Team Is Difficult Because of the Other