Bill and Terry were chatting outside their apartment one afternoon when a car came speeding down the street. The driver ran through a stoplight and sped away in the direction of the freeway. Bill remarked angrily, “Geez, what an idiot! That guy’s a rotten human being.” Terry replied, “Maybe there’s an emergency and he needs to get downtown; I’ll bet he doesn’t normally drive that way.” Bill is making a __________ attribution and Terry is making a __________ attribution for the driver’s behavior.

A) situational; situational
B) external; internal
C) situational; dis positional
D) dis positional; situational


D) dis positional; situational

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