When the cheerleading squad went to a weeklong cheer camp during their school’s spring break, most of the squad took their textbooks and note with them, knowing there would be a midterm exam when they returned to campus. Tariq was confident that he would have plenty of time to study when the squad returned from the trip and he did not take along his study materials. When the exam results were known, Tariq was very unhappy with his poor performance on the exam. When asked by others on the squad why her did so poorly, he immediately blamed the professor and all the ”trick” questions on that exam for his own poor grade. Tariq was applying which of the following to the situation?

A. standpoint theory
B. schemata
C. stereotypes
D. the self-serving bias


D. the self-serving bias

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