Your friend Sam always talks excessively after consuming alcohol. You attribute his excessive talking to the effect of alcohol, according to the:
a. covariation principle
b. fundamental attribution error
c. discounting principle
d. actor/observer bias
e. principle of correspondent inferences
Ans: a
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