Question

A tendency to overestimate the extent to which a stranger's violent behavior stems from his or her aggressive personality BEST illustrates the _____ error.

Answer 1

functional attribution

Step-by-step explanation:

Functional attribution error: In psychology, the term "functional attribution error" is also referred to as "over-attribution effect" or "correspondence bias" and is described as the propensity of an individual to over-emphasize or over-estimate personality or dispositional explanations for specific behaviors observed in someone else while under-emphasizing or under-estimating any situational or external explanations.

In the question above, the given statement represents the "functional attribution error".