Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Blaming a tennis loss on a bad call by the line judge is an example of a dispositional attribution.
2. Blaming the poor call made by a referee on his general incompetence and impaired eyesight is an example of a dispositional attribution.
3. Situational attributions usually are made when an action is distinctive.
4. Dispositional attributions usually are made when an action is consensual.
5. The correspondence bias is another term for the fundamental attribution error.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE

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