Social psychologists use the term ________ to describe our tendency to ignore situational and environmental forces when explaining the behavior of other people and instead to focus on internal dispositions.
A. functional dynamics
B. solutions or mechanisms
C. fundamental situational error
D. fundamental attribution error
Answer: D
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